North Holland Conceptual Econometrics Using R (Volume 41) (Handbook of Statistics, Volume 41)

Product Description Conceptual Econometrics Using R, Volume 41 provides state-of-the-art information on important topics in econometrics, including quantitative game theory, multivariate GARCH, stochastic frontiers, fractional responses, specification testing and model selection, exogeneity testing, causal analysis and forecasting, GMM models, asset bubbles and crises, corporate investments, classification, forecasting, nonstandard problems, cointegration, productivity and financial market jumps and co-jumps, among others. Review The scope of the handbook covers many topics of practical interest to quantitative scientists, especially in economics and finance About the Author Professor C. R. Rao, born in India, is one of this century's foremost statisticians, and received his education in statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. He is Emeritus Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis. He has long been recognized as one of the world's top statisticians, and has been awarded 34 honorary doctorates from universities in 19 countries spanning 6 continents. His research has influenced not only statistics, but also the physical, social and natural sciences and engineering. In 2011 he was recipient of the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Gold which is awarded triennially to those "who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics". It can be awarded both to fellows (members) of the Society and to non-fellows. Since its inception 120 years ago the Gold Medal has been awarded to 34 distinguished statisticians. The first medal was awarded to Charles Booth in 1892. Only two statisticians, H. Cramer (Norwegian) and J. Neyman (Polish), outside Great Britain were awarded the Gold medal and C. R. Rao is the first non-European and non-American to receive the award. Other awards he has received are the Gold Medal of Calcutta University, Wilks Medal of the American Statistical Association, Wilks Army Medal, Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society (UK), Megnadh Saha Medal and Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal of the Indian National Science Academy, J.C.Bose Gold Medal of Bose Institute and Mahalanobis Centenary Gold Medal of the Indian Science Congress, the Bhatnagar award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India and the Government of India honored him with the second highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, for “outstanding contributions to Science and Engineering / Statistics, and also instituted a cash award in honor of C R Rao, “to be given once in two years to a young statistician for work done during the preceding 3 years in any field of statistics. For his outstanding achievements Rao has been honored with the establishment of an institute named after him, C.R.Rao Advanced Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, in the campus of the University of Hyderabad, India. Hrishikesh D. Vinod is a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University, who has published over 200 research papers in refereed journals in Economics and Statistics. His R books include: (i) Hands-On Intermediate Econometrics Using R, (ii) Hands-on Matrix Algebra Using R, (World Scientific Publishers: Hackensack), and (iii) Advances in Social Science Research Using R. (Springer). His Wiley Interscience book (joint with D. P. Reagle) is entitled Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments. His Marcel Dekker book (joint with A. Ullah) is Recent Advances in Regression Methods. Vinod was a researcher at the prestigious Bell Laboratories before becoming a tenured full professor of Economics at the 177-year old Fordham University in New York, where he is the Director of the Institute of Ethics and Economic Policy within Economics Department. The exceptionally diverse range and depth of Vinod’s res