4 papers
A New Way to Look at Regional Survey Data: Differences in Vacancy Rates and Persons per Household by County, 2000-2005
Charles D. Coleman, Jonathan F. Takeuchi
Regional survey estimates and their significance levels are simultaneously displayed in maps that show all 3,141 U.S. counties and equivalents. An analyst can focus his attention o…
The Asymptotic Equivalence of Level-Based and Share-Based Loss Functions
Charles D. Coleman
Level-based and share-based loss functions are asymptotically equivalent if, in the limit, their averages converge almost surely to a constant ratio. These loss functions take a ta…
Loss Functions for Detecting Outliers in Panel Data
Charles D. Coleman, Thomas Bryan
The detection of outliers is of critical importance in the assurance of data quality. Outliers may exist in observed data or in data derived from these observed data, such as estim…
Loss Functions for Measuring the Accuracy of Nonnegative Cross-Sectional Predictions
Charles D. Coleman
Measuring the accuracy of cross-sectional predictions is a subjective problem. Generally, this problem is avoided. In contrast, this paper confronts subjectivity up front by elicit…