Clyde Fuhriman Smith

Model Uncertainty Merlise Clyde and Edward

The evolution of Bayesian approaches for model uncertainty over the past decade has been remarkable. Catalyzed by advances in methods and technology for posterior computation, the scope of these methods has widened substantially. Major thrusts of these developments have included new methods for semi-automatic prior specification and posterior exploration. To illustrate key aspects of this evolu...

Theobald Smith

Smith was a pioneer epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist who made many contributions to medical science that were of far-reaching importance. He is best known for his work on Texas cattle fever, in which he and his colleagues discovered the protozoan agent and its means of transmission by ticks. This was the ¿ rst time that an arthropod had been de¿ nitively linked with the transmiss...

Kathryn Smith

In an open-ended contingent valuation (CV) survey, a respondent can state any non-negative valuation for a given good. As the set of possible responses is infinite, the GibbardSatterthwaite theorem implies that such a survey cannot be incentive-compatible. That is, participants in an open-ended CV survey have an incentive to increase their utility by misrepresenting their preferences. This natu...

Gregor Smith

In this study, Black, Macklem, and Rose thoroughly describe the outcomes when a wide range of reaction functions are set in CPAM, the Canadian Policy Analysis Model developed at the Bank of Canada. The reaction functions for monetary policy influence the short-term interest rate relative to the long-term rate. The analysis begins with the CPAM reaction function, which targets the expected diffe...

Public Consultation: Modernising and Improving Mental Health Services Across Clyde