Statistical Reference Document
Excerpt: This paper reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by Census Bureau staff. It has undergone a Census Bureau review more limited in scope than that given to official Census Bureau publications. This paper is released to inform interested ...
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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his ...
Excerpt: This paper advances simple theoretical arguments in favor of selecting and estimating a different linear forecasting ?model? for each prediction period (lead) m for which a forecast is desired. For these arguments, it is assumed that the series being forecast is covariance stationary and is not perfectly modeled by the one-period-ahead forecasting model which is fit to it. Two examples are given using well-known series which illustrate one possible implementatio...
Excerpt: Methods are developed for estimating trends in time series subject to level shifts. The approach is based on specifying stochastic models for breaks as part of the model structure, using heavy-tailed densities to allow for a positive probability of such a ...
Excerpt: When good King Arthur was reigning in England, there lived in the Duchy of Cornwall a countryman who had an only son called Jack.
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Excerpt: Proposals are made for more comprehensive historic and current analysis of the periodic, systematic, and event-conditioned components in economic time series. The effects of unusual events U are distinguished from regular seasonality sand other periodic ...
Sarah wanted to escape the city life and her wealthy family. Moving from mainland Australia, she purchased a farm in Tasmania. Persistent, yet green to rural living, the new next door neighbour has her attention and she is out to win his heart in the most embarrassing ways. A family tragedy turns her life upside down and her little farm into spook central. Learn the secrets of the after life; you too may have many freeloaders at your address and not all were once human. ...