This paper provides a brief technical survey of the historical national accounts of Iran. Gaining access to longer-term time series in compliance with concepts, classifications and standards comparable to the present one help fulfill quantitative studies in the area of business cycles. Despite the shortage of reliable, standardized and classified information, the methodology applied in thi...

I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called ‘Law of Likelihood’ is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered.

We examine various computational accounts of aspects of music understanding. These accounts involve programs which can notate melodies based on pitch and duration information. It is argued that this task involves significant musical intelligence. In particular, it requires an understanding of basic metric and harmonic relations implicit in the melody. We deal only with single-voice, tonal melod...

ing from the statistical detail of these changes, the cautionary implication for policy-makers is clear: to the extent that inputs like the economy’s growth rate are used in the policy formation process, the substantial inherent uncertainty surrounding such data needs to be recognised. This uncertainty complicates the task of responding to the ‘true’ state of the economy, and suggests the dange...

The authors are indebted to Chandika Indikadahena who has maintained the data files on which the NHA-2000 have been constructed. This construction would not have been possible without an input from several dozen persons who have responded to data request and commented preliminary versions of the data files; this input will be acknowledged in a forthcoming releases on NHA.