This book aims to reclaim the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies - something that is increasingly challenged from different directions. Confronted by the status quoist enterprise of randomized control trials (RCTs) on the one hand and the radical endeavour to...

Empirical experience over the last few decades has shown that standard iid theory or short range dependence time series models do not adequately describe many types of real data in various areas of applications such as geology, astronomy, economics, hydrology, etc. Time series models with long...

In Part I, we consider an interesting problem with many applications. The canonical problem may be stated as follows: in an Euclidean space Rk , n independent observations uniformly distributed in an unknown compact set S are available. We need to estimate the set S . The work is divided into...