Modeling the U.S. Firearms Market

Modeling Credit Risk for SMEs: Evidence from the US Market

Considering the fundamental role played by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the economy of many countries and the considerable attention placed on SMEs in the new Basel Capital Accord, we develop a distress prediction model specifically for the SME sector and to analyze its effectiveness compared to a generic corporate model. The behaviour of financial measures for SMEs is analyzed ...

Livestock market data for modeling disease spread among US cattle

Transportation of livestock carries the risk of spreading foreign animal diseases 2 throughout a susceptible population, leading to costly public and private sector expenditures on disease containment and eradication. Individual animal tracing 4 systems that exist in countries other than the US have allowed epidemiologists and veterinarians in those countries to model the risks engendered by li...

Firearms, violence, and the potential impact of firearms control.

The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey.

OBJECTIVES To examine the size and composition of the privately held firearm stock in the US; and to describe demographic patterns of firearm ownership and motivations for ownership. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative household telephone survey of 2770 adults aged>or=18 years living in the US, conducted in the spring of 2004. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Responses to quest...

Explaining geographic patterns of suicide in the US: the role of firearms and antidepressants

BACKGROUND Suicide rates vary more than 3-fold across the fifty states. Previous ecological studies have pointed, separately, to covariation of suicide mortality with rates of a) household firearm ownership, and b) antidepressant prescriptions. METHODS An ecologic study using panel data from 2001-2005 was used to evaluate the joint and separate association of household firearm ownership and a...