Introduction to empirical data analysis -- Regression analysis -- Analysis of variance -- Discriminant analysis -- Logistic regression -- Contingency analysis -- Factor analysis -- Cluster analysis -- Conjoint analysis.

The traditional linear Granger test has been widely used to examine the linear causality among several time series in bivariate settings as well as multivariate settings. Hiemstra and Jones (1994) develop a nonlinear Granger causality test in a bivariate setting to investigate the nonlinear...