New spatial econometric techniques and applications in regional science

Regional Inequality in Iran and the Impact of Economic Factors: A Spatial Econometric Approach

R egional unbalanced growth and the factors affecting it are one of the most important economic issues in developing countries. In this research, after evaluating the regional inequality at the provincial level of Iran, in order to examine the effect of economic factors on it, it was considered as a spatial econometric model using panel data during the period of 2001 to 2015. The evaluatio...

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING 870.03 Notes on Spatial Econometric Models

Nutrigenomics and its Applications in Animal Science

Nutrigenomics applies genomic technologies to study how nutrients affect expression of genes. With the advent of the post genomic era and with the use of functional genomic tools, the new strategies for evaluating the effects of nutrition on production efficiency and nutrient utilization are becoming available. Nutrigenomics plays an efficient role in various fields of animal health like nutrit...

Econometric applications of high - breakdown robust regression techniques

A literature search shows that robust regression techniques are rarely used in applied econometrics. We present a technique based on Rousseeuw and Van Zomeren [Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85 (1990) 633–639] that removes many of the difficulties in applying such techniques to economic data. We demonstrate the value of these techniques by re-analyzing three OLS-based regressi...

New Techniques and Applications

In this paper, we show how text mining techniques can be used in analysis of Internet and newspaper news. We present a method that focuses on the current topics of opinion appearing in the news, illustrating the method mostly with Spanish examples. This method uses a classical statistical model based on distribution analysis, average calculus, and standard deviation computation to discover info...