This paper presents two score tests to determine a value for the Box–Cox transformation parameter. The test based on expected information performs better in small samples and is computationally simpler than the one based on observed information; therefore, the former is recommended.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The KBSE community is actively engaged in finding ways to represent software and the activities that relate to various stages in its lifecycle. While the wealth of modeling activities have, necessarily, been founded on first order logic based representations, this paper reports on research into Software Information Systems that has found the domain of software knowledge to be inherently second ...

We investigate how interdependence among investors' beliefs affects the reliance on market prices as a performance measure and this in turn firm's preference for financial reporting quality. When investors want to align their values more with other beliefs, optimal contracts become reliant accounting report less price, emphasizing stewardship role of herding market. If baseline quality required...