We present a polynomial expansion of the standardized Student-t distribution. Our density, obtained through adjusted method in Bagnato, Potí, and Zoia (2015. “The Role Orthogonal Polynomials Adjusting Hyperbolic Secant Logistic Distributions to Analyse Financial Asset Returns.” Statistical Papers 56 (4): 1205–12340), is an extension Gram–Charlier density Jondeau Rockinger (2001. “Gram-Charlier ...

Resumen En este artículo presentamos una propuesta de niveles progresivos, lo informal a formal, razonamiento inferencial para el estadístico t-Student, partir criterios epistémicos identificados con un estudio tipo histórico-epistemológico sobre y la investigación desarrollada inferencial. Para ello, utilizamos algunas nociones teórico-metodológicas introducidas por Enfoque Onto-Semiótico del ...

*the views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal reserve bank of Philadelphia or the Federal reserve system. you’ve probably heard of reverse mortgage loans. but even though these loans have been getting more attention in the media and in academia, it’s possible that you’re still not sure about what reverse mortgages really are.1 ost pe...

In 2006, Case Western Reserve University (Case) initiated the acquisition, customization, and implementation of a new student information system (SIS). The Case SIS Project was intended to integrate the capture and management of all student information and student‐facing administrative functions across the university's distinct schools. Key functions supported by the platform include admissions...

BACKGROUND Chief Residents must lead, manage and mentor a diverse and often large group of residents, however there is a lack of formal leadership training throughout graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE Development of a 3-part Chief Resident (CR) Program focused on leading, managing and mentoring. DESIGN Each participant completes an Emotional Intelligence (EI) Inventory prior to the day-...

The teacher-student (T/S) learning has been shown effective in unsupervised domain adaptation [1]. It is a form of transfer learning, not in terms of the transfer of recognition decisions, but the knowledge of posteriori probabilities in the source domain as evaluated by the teacher model. It learns to handle the speaker and environment variability inherent in and restricted to the speech signa...

Teacher Education is an integral part of any educational system. It should provide a platform in developing the holistic personality of a student teacher. This paper reports on personality of student teachers and the role of Teacher Educational institutions in developing it. The sample consists of 1080 student teachers of Madurai revenue district. A Multi dimensional Personality Inventory const...

An encompassing model of a business loan contract with the bank is constructed to establish the roles and relative importance of asymmetry of information, market power, borrower (entrepreneurial) effort and quality in explaining contract features. Special cases of the model include symmetric versus asymmetric information regimes, competition versus monopoly power, adverse selection versus moral...

“Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School”: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even...