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Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs
I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only tangential for his purposes, it is marred by a misunderstanding of theism, and vulnerable to a counterexample that actually demonstrates incompatibility. Moreover, the notion of begging the question employed by Oppy against the theist is seen to be far too permissive
SNEEP: Social Networking Extensions for EPrints (SNEEPflet)
Leaflet created to promote SNEEP plugins at poster/demo session at JISC Innovations Forum, Keele University, 2008
An Analysis of Quantitative Credit Controls and Related Devices
macroeconomics, quantitative credit controls
Intermediate targets and indicators for monetary policy: an introduction to the issues
Money supply ; Monetary policy - United States
Unit roots in moving averages beyond first order
The asymptotic theory of various estimators based on Gaussian likelihood has
been developed for the unit root and near unit root cases of a first-order
moving average model. Previous studies of the MA(1) unit root problem rely on
the special autocovariance structure of the MA(1) process, in which case, the
eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the covariance matrix of the data vector have
known analytical forms. In this paper, we take a different approach to first
consider the joint likelihood by including an augmented initial value as a
parameter and then recover the exact likelihood by integrating out the initial
value. This approach by-passes the difficulty of computing an explicit
decomposition of the covariance matrix and can be used to study unit root
behavior in moving averages beyond first order. The asymptotics of the
generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) statistic for testing unit roots are also
studied. The GLR test has operating characteristics that are competitive with
the locally best invariant unbiased (LBIU) test of Tanaka for some local
alternatives and dominates for all other alternatives.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS935 the Annals of
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Discussion of: A statistical analysis of multiple temperature proxies: Are reconstructions of surface temperatures over the last 1000 years reliable?
Discussion of "A statistical analysis of multiple temperature proxies: Are
reconstructions of surface temperatures over the last 1000 years reliable?" by
B.B. McShane and A.J. Wyner [arXiv:1104.4002]Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS398C the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
ArchivePress: Diamonds In The Rough
This paper considers the practical issues in capturing and preserving blog posts and comments. It introduces "ArchivePress", a new approach for institutions large or small that wish to archive blog content that leverages the native data structures and formats of blogs and the dynamic capabilities of associated newsfeeds and APIs, to create flexible, manageable, scoped archives of multiple blogs
A custom EPrints solution for SOAS Digital Archives
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is undertaking a major digitisation programme for its rich and diverse archives of materials from Asia and Africa.
In response to the tender by the Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East (CeDAAME) at SOAS in 2009, the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) proposed and implemented an Open Source E-Prints-based solution for online open access to the
digitised materials
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