Ground truth data requirements for altimeter performance verification

The amount and type of ground truth required for an altimeter experiment is a function of the uncertainty in the satellite orbit, the altimeter error budget and the type of operation being performed. Ground truth requirements will be discussed with reference to three areas of operation: the global mode, the high intensity mode and calibration

Electro-optic modulator for infrared laser using gallium arsenide crystal

Gallium arsenide electro-optic modulator used for infrared lasers has a mica quarter-wave plate and two calcite polarizers to amplitude or phase modulate an infrared laser light source in the wavelength range from 1 to 3 microns. The large single crystal has uniformly high resistivities, is strain free, and comparable in quality to good optical glass

Exact intervals and tests for median when one sample value possibly an outlier

Confidence intervals and significance tests for mean of symmetrical population with outlier observation not largest or smalles

Measuring money

Monetary policy - United States ; Money supply

A primer on monetary policy. Part II, targets and indicators

Monetary policy - United States ; Interest rates ; Economic indicators

Asset Prices, Substitution Effects, and the Impact of Changes in Asset Stocks

The standard result in macroeconomic models is that an increase in the stock of government debt has an ambiguous effect on aggregate demand. Models which have derived this result have assumed that all assets are gross substitutes. Some recent work within the framework of mean-variance portfolio models, however, seems to imply that the assumption that all assets are gross substitutes is sufficient to determine whether an increase in government debt is expansionary or contractionary. This apparent inconsistency is resolved by showing that gross substitutability is sufficient to sign the impact of a change in government debt only when money is riskless. To carry out the analysis, portfolio choice and equilibrium asset prices are characterized in a new way through the use of a distance function.

Deregulation in New Zealand

New Zealand ; Financial institutions - New Zealand

Generally applicable two-person percentile game theory

Two-person percentile game theory with separate and independent choice of strategie

Generalization of ratio estimate for population total

Estimating total Y for finite population with unknown value

A primer on monetary policy. Part 1, goals and instruments

Monetary policy - United States ; Open market operations