It is widely recognized that orthodox economics is obsessed with econometrics tools. However, econometrics techniques have a limited capacity to deal with qualitative variables coming from surveys. This paper presents a ...

Os avanços tecnológicos têm contribuído para aplicações de metodologias não paramétricas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo determinar uma função discriminante capaz de prever a condição de estabilidade ...

Background and Objectives: The American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) is a disease of complex chain of transmission subject to various determinants, in the same region. Theaim was to analyze the ACL behavior and identify ...

Multivariable correlation analysis (MVCA) is a powerful tool in the field of system identification, especially where only normal operational data with simultaneous disturbance and input variations, all with some degree of ...

In this paper we describe the characteristics and the applications of the multivariate methods for spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques independent component analysis (ICA) and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy ...