On the calculation and use of test statistics in econometri- cs

Prof Leslie Godfrey | Statistics Computing and Methodology | 01 October 1988

Economic models may be estimated in a variety of ways. In the first part of this project, the researchers intend to investigate how the choice of estimation method affects statistics used to test assumptions about such models. The relibility of test ...

Developing public involvement in predictive computer modelling

Steven Yearley | Sociology | 01 April 2000

The project examines ways of mapping the perceptions of a selection of professionals and members of the public who are concerned with noise and air pollution. Gis-p will be used as a way to include non-specialist, spatially-referenced perceptual info ...

Health economics and its practical applications

Prof Mulkay | 01 October 1985

The possibility of practical utility is currently the most pervasive and persuasive justification available in industrial societies for the development of specific areas of knowledge. Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay ...

The public debate over research on human embryos

Prof Mulkay | Sociology | 01 November 1992

The first test-tube baby was born in britain in 1978. This event set in motion an extended public debate over the legitimacy of the new techniques of assisted reproduction and of the research on human embryos with which these techniques were associat ...

Multi-level modelling of variations in health status between districts

Professor Roy Carr-Hill | Statistics, Computing and Methodology | 01 October 1990

Econometric analysis of equity and bond markets

Professor Mike Wickens | Economics | 01 October 1995

Application abstract: this research is concerned with the influence of macroeconomic factors in the pricing of equity and bonds. These factors can affect prices either directly or through risk premia. The aim is to use the latest econometric techniqu ...

Quasi cohort analysis of the changing financial circumstanc- es of young people

Ms S Hutton | Sociology | 01 July 1989

In the 1960s school leavers started their working lives at a time of full employment and by 1980 many, if not most would have accumulated the assets that a steady income from employment allows. For later generations, however, the chances of getting w ...

Workplace cycling cultures, modal shift and bicycle design: implications for individual & organisational practices

Paul Rosen | Sociology | 01 January 2000

This project analyses the interplay between individual and orgaisational attitudes and behaviour around work-related transport. It addresses the key problem that whilst more bicycles are bought than cars, bicycle ownership does not translate straight ...

Simulation-based econometric approaches to investigating the interaction of lifestyle and health

Professor Andrew Jones | Economics | 01 July 1999

The aim is to develop a research programme investigating the interaction and evaluation of lifestyles, health and income. To achieve this the project will apply simulation based econometric methods to panel data from the health and lifestyle survey a ...

The syntactic acquisition of french-wh questions: a cross-dialectal comparison

Dr Bernardette Plunkett | Linguistics | 15 November 1996

Abstract: the project will constitute a preliminary investigation into the acquisition of the syntax of french questions. Questions have been the subject of much debate in both the literature on syntax and on language acquisition but many questions r ...