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Risk of disclosure when reporting commonly used univariate statistics (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When basic or descriptive summary statistics are reported, it may be possible that the entire sample of observations is inadvertently disclosed, or that members within a sample will be able to work out responses of others. Three sets of univariate su... Read More about Risk of disclosure when reporting commonly used univariate statistics.

Disclosure risks in odds ratios and logistic regression (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When publishing statistics from confidential data, there exists a risk that the statistic might inadvertently reveal confidential information. Statistical disclosure control (SDC) aims to reduce that risk to an acceptable level. Most SDC theory is co... Read More about Disclosure risks in odds ratios and logistic regression.

Safety in numbers: Minimum thresholding, Maximum bounds and Little White Lies : The case of the mean and standard deviation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reporting the sample mean, sample standard deviation and sample size could in some cases lead to the unique identification of the underpinning sample. The likelihood of this reveal via direct enumeration of the possible search space decreases with i... Read More about Safety in numbers: Minimum thresholding, Maximum bounds and Little White Lies : The case of the mean and standard deviation.

Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note (2012)
Journal Article

Economists use various measures to account for the effect of poverty, welfare or health on economic growth but there is a lack of understanding of the movement of such variables over time and whether countries experiences similar trends. This paper p... Read More about Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
Journal Article

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Productivity and proximity (2010)
Journal Article

Labour productivity is known to be higher in the presence of agglomeration economies. This paper presents an analysis of the shape of the relationship between labour productivity and the distance between the firm and the region’s central business dis... Read More about Productivity and proximity.

Testing for a structural change of gradient in regression modelling (2010)
Journal Article

We present a “broken stick” method to model structural changes of gradient in a regression model. The assessment of the statistical significance of the nodes in the model is assessed using bootstrap techniques. The method is illustrated using output... Read More about Testing for a structural change of gradient in regression modelling.

An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results (2009)
Journal Article

This article presents a simple method for identifying distributional dynamic properties of economies using the ideas of concordance and discordance. It can be employed to examine the strength and validity of the results of other methods. The method h... Read More about An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results.

A statistical development of fixed odds betting rules in soccer (2009)
Journal Article

Two simple but seemingly profitable betting rules for betting on the away win in association football are developed. One rule is consistent with avoiding those games in which there is a clear favourite. The second rule is based directly on modellin... Read More about A statistical development of fixed odds betting rules in soccer.

Convergence towards a steady-state distribution (2007)
Journal Article

The convergence literature frequently presupposes some unidentified steady-state distribution. This paper presents a new method to identify the presence and rate of convergence to a steady-state distribution. The method is illustrated with applicatio... Read More about Convergence towards a steady-state distribution.