We look into the problem of estimating a regression function that exhibits peaks, i.e. discontinuities in the first derivative. In the neighbourhood of such a discontinuity we investigate the behaviour of the local linear fit and find that it is not consistent for estimating the first derivative, and for estimating the function itself it loses in the rate of convergence. Indeed, near such point...

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the relativistic quantum field theory of the strong interactions. Journal articles, books, and other documents are cited for the following topics: quarks and color, the parton model, Yang-Mills theory, experimental evidence for color, QCD as a color gauge theory, asymptotic freedom, QCD for heavy hadrons, Q...

SEMI-MARKOV DECISION INCLUDING AN UNKNOWN Masami Kurano Chiba University PROCESSES PARAMETER (Received February 27, 1984: Revised May 8,1985) We consider the problem of minimizing the long-run average (expected) cost per unit time in a semiMarkov decision process including an unknown parameter. In the case of general state and action spaces and compact parameter space we construct the adaptive ...

— The Economics of Happiness is one of the research areas of greatest growth in recent years. Throughout this work, a venture based model in which satisfaction of Spanish entrepreneurs with their professional life is performed. We analyze the responses of 9,989 entrepreneurs using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and six hypothesis are discussed. The results show that, for t...

We consider maximum likelihood estimation of finite mixture of uniform distributions. We prove that maximum likelihood estimator is strongly consistent, if the scale parameters of the component uniform distributions are restricted from below by exp(−nd), 0 < d < 1, where n is the sample size.

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