Torts: Nuisance: Personal Annoyance as Sole Injury

Neighborhoods as Nuisance

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an innnite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, in principle, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive s...

The Future of Toxic Torts: Of Chemophobia, Risk as a Compensable Injury and Hybrid Compensation Systems

Personal and situational variables associated with wind turbine noise annoyance.

The possibility that wind turbine noise (WTN) affects human health remains controversial. The current analysis presents results related to WTN annoyance reported by randomly selected participants (606 males, 632 females), aged 18-79, living between 0.25 and 11.22 km from wind turbines. WTN levels reached 46 dB, and for each 5 dB increase in WTN levels, the odds of reporting to be either very or...

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters? Robustness vs. Semiparametrics

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an infinite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive such a semipar...