Generalized piecewise linear histograms

We extend the concept of piecewise linear histogram introduced recently by Beirlant, Berlinet and Györfi. The disadvantage of that histogram is that in many models it takes on negative values with probability close to 1. We show that for a wide set of models, the extended class of estimates contains a bona fide density with probability tending to 1 as the sample size n increases to infinity. The mean integrated absolute error in the extended class of estimators decreases with the same rate n^–2/5 as in the original narrower class.     

On the measurement of corporate diversification strategy: Evidence from large U.S. service firms

Actual, not potential, relatedness determines the results of diversification strategies. An external examination of a firm's businesses, products, markets and technologies permits an assessment of potential relatedness among its various businesses. Potential relatedness is, however, often not realized. Also, relatedness may be externally invisible. Hence, actual relatedness may diverge from externally measured potential relatedness. This paper provides evidence suggesting that measures of corporate diversification strategy based on internal data differ significantly from those based on externally available data.     

Memory recall errors in retrospective surveys: A reverse record check study

This paper reports on a study to compare self-reports during an interview with staff who attended a University health centre in Turkey, with the records of visits to the same health centre over the previous 12 months. Design of the study reflects the effects of importance of the event, duration since the event, frequency of the occurrence of the event, measurement scale of the event, and bounded and unbounded recalling. In order to assess the extent of recall error, responses to retrospective questions on health centre visits are compared with administrative records. Statistical models are proposed for short and long term human memory recall error effects on responses.     

管理学著作翻译须注重质量——《评估管理》等译文错误分析

管理科学堪称西方文化精华,翻译介绍管理学著作是一件非常有意义的事情。由于翻译介绍的管理学理论和方法极有可能被企业奉为圭臬,翻译必须十分慎重和注重质量。本文通过对一些错误译文的分析,希望引起出版和翻译界对译文质量的重视。     

作业基础业绩评价体系的构建

作业基础内部业绩评价体系是在传统责任会计理论基础上发展起来的作业基础责任会计制度,它以作业为基础,通过作业动因对企业内部各责任中心的再认识和再划分,利用作业管理基本理论和方法,依据作业价值链对责任中心进行管理和考核.作业基础责任会计是责任会计自身理论和实践的发展与完善,是对企业内部业绩评价的一种全新的改革.     

The Austrian current account deficit: Driven by twin deficits or by intertemporal expenditure allocation?

The evidence presented in the paper rejects the twin deficit hypothesis for the Austrian current account balance during the last two decades. The results are based on an estimate of a vector error correction model including quarterly data for the current account balance and potentially relevant variables driving its dynamics. We compute the variance decomposition of the current account's forecast error and its generalized impulse responses to shocks in the innovations of the system. The results in favor of intertemporal expenditure reallocation cannot be reproduced within a second analysis including the current account and a measure of net output, however. The estimated implicit current account balance, interpreted as the discounted expected change in future net output, does not follow the actual behaviour of the current account. First version received: June 1999/Final version received: March 2001     

"净利+利息+折旧"抑或"净利+税后利息+折旧"?——对会计资格考试辅导教材中经营现金净流量计量方法的商榷

计算项目净现值(NPV)等投资决策指标时,现金流量与折现率应具有匹配关系。从两者的匹配关系看,全国会计专业技术资格考试辅导教材《财务管理》一书中的经营现金净流量(NCF)计量公式有欠妥当。因为以项目的加权平均资本成本(WACC)作为折现率时,与之相应的NCF的计量方法不应是教材中的“净利 利息 折旧”,而应该是“净利 税后利息 折旧”,或者是“息税前利润(1-所得税率) 折旧”。     

知识资本计量报告浅探

知识资本管理的前提是对知识资本进行计量报告,从而为知识资本管理提供赖以决策的信息。企业知识资本计量报告已经成为目前国内外理论界研究的一个热点领域。本文首先从知识资本特征出发,提出应将知识资本放在现行的财务会计报告框架外单独地予以计量报告,然后对现存的知识资本计量报告模型进行了分析评价,最后初步提出完善的知识资本计量报告框架的构建思路。     

盾构机姿态参数测量技术研究

根据三点决定一个平面的原理,通过在盾构机中体上布置测量控制点,对其三维坐标进行测量;根据空间解析几何原理,推导出盾构机刀盘中心三维坐标以及俯仰角、横摆角、扭转角的计算方法。文章利用计算机的伪随机函数对盾构机姿态参数的测量精度进行了模拟评价,探讨了提高测量精度的方法。结果表明,盾构姿态参数的测量误差均服从正态分析;采用精度为3mm的激光经纬仪测量控制点坐标,得到的盾构姿态参数的误差范围比规范要求小得多。     

On estimating the reliability after sequentially estimating the mean: The exponential case

Sequential estimation problems for the mean parameter of an exponential distribution has received much attention over the years. Purely sequential and accelerated sequential estimators and their asymptotic second-order characteristics have been laid out in the existing literature, both for minimum risk point as well as bounded length confidence interval estimation of the mean parameter. Having obtained a data set from such sequentially designed experiments, the paper investigates estimation problems for the associatedreliability function. Second-order approximations are provided for the bias and mean squared error of the proposed estimator of the reliability function, first under a general setup. An ad hoc bias-corrected version is also introduced. Then, the proposed estimator is investigated further under some specific sequential sampling strategies, already available in the literature. In the end, simulation results are presented for comparing the proposed estimators of the reliability function for moderate sample sizes and various sequential sampling strategies.