The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ...

Conventional reliability analysis techniques are focused on the occurrence of failures over time. However, in certain situations where the occurrence of failures is tiny or almost null, the estimation of the quantities ...

Estimation in the context of functional data analysis is almost always non-parametric, since the object to be estimated lives in an infinite dimensional space. That is the case for the functional linear model with a ...

For this case study, the objective was to prepare a comparative analysis of foreign direct investment and portfolio investment between Ecuador, Peru and Colombia from 2013 to 2017. To achieve this, the descriptive method ...

The inverse Weibull distribution has the ability to model failure rates which are quite common in reliability and biological studies. A three-parameter generalized inverse Weibull distribution with decreasing and unimodal ...

In ship building, line-heating is widely employed as an effective method to form steel plate with complex 3-dimensional carved geometries. However the plate bending by line heating is strongly dependent on skills. To ...