IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...

Trading cost analysis (TCA) is now an essential activity for fixed income traders seeking quantitative execution quality insights. This is driving a virtuous circle where the demand for higher quality ...

A group from the National Institute of Health's Office of Portfolio Analysis has developed a new metric, known as the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), which will allow researchers and funders to ...

“Relative mobility” measures how a child’s ranking in the income distribution compares to her parents'. “Absolute mobility” measures something entirely different. The economics blogosphere as well as ...

The econometric measurement of inequality and poverty in advanced capitalist economies has been preoccupied with aggregate measures of relative deprivation, namely, the Gini Index and a relative ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As a clever-clogs analyst a long time ago, I remember ripping a friend’s new business venture apart. Why would ...

Recently, Greenwood, Hercowitz and Krusell (GHK) have identified the relative price of (new) capital with capital-specific technological progress. In a two-sector growth model, however, the relative ...

In this volume, Spiegler and coworkers present their work on very low-birth weight infants (VLBW), they analysed at what age parents start complementary food in these infants, they determined risk ...