Multivariate statistical analysis uses techniques of variables selection and aggregation. Numerous economic phenomena belong to the application field of multivariate analysis. Generally all phenomena described by large number of variables may be analyzed within this framework. On the other side,...

The human capital development programs, partly financed by the means of European Social Fund, result in activities with the goal to equip students with skills not offered in traditional education and training system. Especially unique, so called soft skills seems to be necessary in contemporary...

Statisticians rarely devote as much attention to their profession as it does deserve, including such fundamental questions as what actually constitutes statistics today - as a discipline in relation to others, primarily to mathematics and observation-based sciences (theoretically or applied...