Abstract Identifiability of parameters is an essential property for a statistical model to be useful in most settings. However, establishing parameter identifiability for Bayesian networks with hidden variables remains challenging. In the context of finite state spaces, we give algebraic...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a multidimensional concept that involves several aspects, ranging from Environment, to Social and Governance. Companies aiming to comply with CSR standards have to face challenges that vary from one aspect to the other and from one industry to the other....

Iran is currently implementing a five-year project, co-financed by the World Bank, aims: a) to strengthen the institutional capacity to monitor air and water quality, b) to build partnerships among ministries, universities, municipalities and civil societies, and c) to strengthen training and...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a multidimensional concept that involves several aspects, ranging from environment to social and governance. Companies aiming to comply with CSR standards have to face challenges that vary from one aspect to the other and from one industry to the other....

Consumer credit has become an enormous business in industrialized countries. Recently, finance agencies have started to develop new products aiming not only to widen their portfolio but also to keep active relationships with good clients already taken on file and to prevent bad clients from...

We explore the effects of truncation on the joint distribution of the observable random variables. A general formula for the distortion induced by truncation in the least-squares coefficients is presented. The implications of our derivations are illustrated with an example.