Browsing by Subject "Statistical methods"
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(1) The Statistical Abstract; (2) the 24th session of the International Institute of Statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1939)Some remarks may perhaps be expected in explanation of the two-fold title of my inaugural address. A consideration of the Statistical Abstract, which is a compendium not only of statistics published by the ... -
A visual test for a unit root: Geary's count of sign changes revisited
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Prompted by Geary's (1970) suggestion in a different context, the stationarity of a plotted time series can be assessed by simply counting the number of times the plot crosses the trend line linking the first and last ... -
Artificial regression based mis-specification tests for discrete choice models
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests for omitted variables, neglected heteroscedasticity and other mis-specifications in general discrete choice models may be simply and conveniently calculated using an artificial regression. ... -
Determinants of money demand in Ireland 1971 to 1988: rounding-up the usual suspects
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)Unless some form of stable relationship between money demand and economic activity exists, there is no possibility of the monetary authorities being able to affect economic activity by changing the money supply. This fact, ... -
Determination of linear relations between systematic parts of variables with errors of observation the variances of which are unknown
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Given a sufficient number of instrumental variables significantly correlated with the investigational variables, consistent estimates of the coefficients of the linear relations can be determined (if they exist), without ... -
Economic relativity
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)If the sole purpose of the work of the Society were statistical investigation, I would be completely unqualified to preside over its meetings. It is possible, however, to slip in under the second part of our title. In ... -
Estimation of the parameter in the discrete "Taxi" problem, with and without replacement
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)In the continuous uniform distribution [0,N], the Maximum Likelihood estimator of N is known to possess high mean square error for large samples. This paper examines this issue in the discrete case, without replacement ... -
Geary on inference in multiple regression and on closeness and the Taxi problem
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)This paper deals with some minor aspects of Roy Geary's work. Two areas are selected for discussion ? (a) his work with Leser on "paradoxical" situations in multiple regression and (b) his work on estimation of the unknown ... -
Geary's contiguity ratio
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Forty years ago Geary published a paper oil spatial statistics introducing the contiguity ratio, c, to measure spatial pattern. He discussed c not only as a direct measure but as a regression diagnostic for assessing ... -
Irish progress during the past ten years, 1881-1890
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)We have just come to the end of the decade, 1881-90; the census has been taken, we have available nearly all the information as to progress during the year 1890, which is capable of statistical treatment, and accordingly ... -
The mechanism of statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)It has fallen to my lot to serve in a Department where every variety of statistical work is to be found, and where the practical problems of how information is to be collected, tabulated, and published at a minimum ... -
Methods of sampling applied to Irish statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)As the Society is aware, during the recent troubles the system of complete enumeration of agricultural statistics broke down in this country, and since then it has been necessary to rely on estimates derived from a ... -
Money demand in Ireland 1972-1989: a dynamic equation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)The relationship between the demand for real money and its principal determinants is the vital link by which the actions of the monetary authorities affect the real economy. The estimation of money demand functions that ... -
More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Geary's treatment of the "taxi" problem was recently re-examined by Spencer and Largey (1993). This paper investigates the topic further, partly to place Geary's estimator in the context of more general methods and also ... -
On producers and users of statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1989)It is always somewhat difficult for presidents of societies like The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society to decide on an appropriate topic for a presidential address. It is not normally an occasion for an in-depth ... -
On the connexion between statistics and political economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)As our Society professes to be formed in order to promote the study of "Statistical and Economical Science," I think it may not be inappropriate to make a few observations, by way of introduction, on the connexion between ... -
President's address
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)It occurred to me that it might possibly be pleasing both to the members of this society and that portion of the outside public which takes an interest in our proceedings, if in my address I endeavoured to make some ... -
Report of the address at the opening of the fifth session of the Dublin Statistical Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Honoured by the request of the council of this society that I should, as acting vice-president, open the business of this its fifth session with such observations as might serve to supplement the annual report which has ...
