AGRICULTURAL LOAN EVALUATION WITH DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS

Agricultural Finance,

Indiens Yanomami et chercheurs d'or au Brésil : le massacre de Haximu

Albert Bruce. Indiens Yanomami et chercheurs d'or au Brésil. Le massacre de Haximu. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 80, 1994. pp. 250-257

On yanomami warfare : rejoinder

Critique d'interprétation sociobiologique de la guerre yanomami proposée par l'anthropologue américain N.A. Chagnon (2ème partie). (Résumé d'auteur

Indian lands, environmental policy and military geopolitics in the development of the brazilian Amazon : the case of the Yanomami

This article examines the realignments of the developmentalist discourse and strategy of the Brazilian military for the Amazon during the civilian government of the "New Republic" (1985-90). It focuses on a case study, i.e. the official expropriation of the lands of the Yanomami Indians in the states of Roraima and Amazonas along the Brazil/Venezuela border. The analysis brings to light how, during this period, the military aimed at neutralizing both the pressure of environmental NGOs on Brazil's international creditors and the emergent democratization of decisions on land use in Amazônia. It shows how such attempts involved manipulating environmental legislation and ecological rhetoric in order to perpetuate militazy hegemony over the development of Amazônia to the manoeuvres to a geopolitical and economical model for Amazonian integration still inspired by the national security doctrine drawn up in the 1950s and 1960s by the Escola Superior de Guerra. (Résumé d'auteur

Marginal analysis of longitudinal count data in long sequences: Methods and applications to a driving study

Most of the available methods for longitudinal data analysis are designed and validated for the situation where the number of subjects is large and the number of observations per subject is relatively small. Motivated by the Naturalistic Teenage Driving Study (NTDS), which represents the exact opposite situation, we examine standard and propose new methodology for marginal analysis of longitudinal count data in a small number of very long sequences. We consider standard methods based on generalized estimating equations, under working independence or an appropriate correlation structure, and find them unsatisfactory for dealing with time-dependent covariates when the counts are low. For this situation, we explore a within-cluster resampling (WCR) approach that involves repeated analyses of random subsamples with a final analysis that synthesizes results across subsamples. This leads to a novel WCR method which operates on separated blocks within subjects and which performs better than all of the previously considered methods. The methods are applied to the NTDS data and evaluated in simulation experiments mimicking the NTDS.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS507 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Yanomami "violence" : inclusive fitness or ethnographer's representation ?

Critique de l'interprétation sociobiologique de la guerre yanomami proposée par l'anthropologue américain N.A. Chagnon dans un article de Science (239 : p. 985-92, 1988). (Résumé d'auteur