... and beverages The mining industry is also a significant contributor Figure 3a(top) Trend in BOD (mg/l) in Indian water bodies Figure 3b(bottom) Trend in FC (MPN/100ml) in Indian water bodies ... Monitoring by the State Environmental Protection Administration in China showed that river water quality was lower in the north Water pollution in Asia: The urgent need for prevention and monitoring ... the following Agricultural provides a summary of the key points increased 62% from 1990 to 2002 and production in the region consumption of mineral fertilizer increased 15%.6 Exceedingly high...
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... 294 Introducing an intermediate computation with let Transparent identifiers 296 11.5 Joins 295 297 Inner joins using join clauses 297 Group joins with join … into clauses 301 Cross joins using ... Objects 275 11.1 Introducing LINQ 276 What’s in a name? 276 Fundamental concepts in LINQ 277 Defining the sample data model 282 ■ ■ 11.2 Simple beginnings: selecting elements 283 Starting with a source ... Filtering with Where, and chaining method calls together 265 Projections using the Select method and anonymous types 266 Sorting using the OrderBy method 267 Business examples involving chaining...
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... switching model and the pure linear model 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality 41 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality Besides forecasting specific ... probability of continuing in the same regime If the economy is in deflation or recession, given by the H(xt ; λ) neuron, we can determine if the likelihood of continuing inthis state, − Ψ(yt−1 ... recovery in business cycle models or in ation and deflation in models of price adjustment As in the case of linear regime switching models, the most important payoff of this type of modeling is that...
... point for quite some time during the training period Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet for avoiding the problems of local minima in nonlinear estimation There are only strategies involving ... nonuniform since, over time, the algorithm is sampling increasingly more intensively in a neighborhood of the existing coefficient values This more localized search allows for some fine tuning of the ... resampling the original training set with replacement, and then taking repeated forecasts Bagging is particularly useful if the data set exhibits instability or structural change Combining the...
... call this type of recursive estimation an expanding window The sample size, of course, becomes larger as we move forward in time An alternative to the expanding window is the moving window Inthis ... model, we begin by dividing the data into an in- sample estimation or training set for obtaining the coefficients, and an out-of-sample or test set With the latter set of data, we plug in the coefficients ... use in the test set For cross-section studies with large numbers of observations, withholding 25% of the data is reasonable In time-series forecasting, however, the main interest is in forecasting...
... as the linear model What will be more interesting is the forecasting of the switches in volatility, rather than the return itself, inthis series We return to this subject in the following section ... behave, particularly in volatile emerging-market economies Following Bates (1996) and Craine, Lochester, and Syrtveit (1999), we present this process in continuous time by the following equations: ... estimation and forecasting performance against the linear model I invite the reader to continue these experiments with artificial data Times Series: Examples from Industry and Finance This chapter moves...
... bound of interest rates They were lowering interest rates, but not enough during the period of deflation, so that real interest rates were in fact increasing We see thisin Figure 7.18 192 In ation ... (7.20) The in ation model in the NNRS model has a core linear component, including autoregressive terms, a moving average component, and a nonlinear component incorporating switching regime effects, ... on in ation, so they raise the interest rates in anticipation of countering higher future in ation Sims found that this puzzle disappears in U.S data when we include a commodity price index in...
... variables remain significant in the modified models 9 Dimensionality Reduction and Implied Volatility Forecasting Inthis chapter we apply the methodologies of linear and nonlinear principal component ... reflect uncertainty in the world economy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan The continuing volatility in 2003 may also be explained by the ... Forecasting 0.9 Linear Principal Component 0.8 0.7 Nonlinear Principal Component 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 FIGURE 9.2 Hong Kong linear and nonlinear principal...
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