Non-Procrustean Bankruptcy

Play: A Procrustean Probe

The brigand Procrustes dispatched his victims by stretching or trimming their bodies in order that they be made to fit his bed. Considered as a scientific theory, McLuhan’s four “laws of media” risk violating research in a dangerously Procrustean manner. Conceived as an exploratory probe, however, his “tetrad” can provide illuminating insights into the social and psychological effects of indivi...

The Procrustean beds of children's palliative care.

Bankruptcy Judges and Bankruptcy Venue: Some Thoughts on Delaware

Designing and Presenting a Model for Determining the Risk (Bankruptcy) of Bankruptcy of Banks and Non-Bank Credit Institutions Based on Differential (Diagnostic) Analysis

This article aims to model the credit default assessment of banks and non-bank credit institutions by differential analysis (diagnostic). For this purpose, the statistical sample size has been determined through the "screening sampling method". The researcher collects observations by sampling members of the statistical community. The purpose of the study, which includes all "banks and credit in...

Procrustean statistical inference of deformations

A two step method has been devised for the statistical inference of deformation changes. In the first step of this method and based on Procrustes analysis of deformation tensors, the significance of the change in a time or space series of deformation tensors is statistically analyzed. In the second step significant change(s) in deformations are localized. In other words, they are assigned to ce...