Statistics on the Employment Situation of People With Disabilities: A Compendium of National Methodologies

[From Summary] This Compendium describes the methodologies currently in use in 95 countries to compile such statistics. The ILO Bureau of Statistics, in collaboration with the ILO Disability Programme within the InFocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability, has conducted a worldwide survey to analyse the different approaches currently used. A questionnaire was sent to ministries of labour and national statistical offices in early 2003, aimed at collecting information about the availability of statistics of disabled persons, especially their employment situation

Bayesian Inverse Quantum Theory

A Bayesian approach is developed to determine quantum mechanical potentials from empirical data. Bayesian methods, combining empirical measurements and "a priori" information, provide flexible tools for such empirical learning problems. The paper presents the basic theory, concentrating in particular on measurements of particle coordinates in quantum mechanical systems at finite temperature. The computational feasibility of the approach is demonstrated by numerical case studies. Finally, it is shown how the approach can be generalized to such many-body and few-body systems for which a mean field description is appropriate. This is done by means of a Bayesian inverse Hartree-Fock approximation.Comment: LaTex, 32 pages, 19 figure