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Threshold Cointegration by Balke, Nathan S., Fomby, Thomas B.

“…In this paper, we consider a model in which there is discontinuous adjustment to a long-run equilibrium. Here, the equilibrium error follows a threshold…”
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Financial Capability and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households by Millimet, Daniel L., McDonough, Ian K., Fomby, Thomas B.

“…Food insecurity is among the most significant, nutrition-related public health issues facing the United States. Unfortunately, little is known about the…”
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The 2012 West Nile Encephalitis Epidemic in Dallas, Texas by Chung, Wendy M, Buseman, Christen M, Joyner, Sibeso N, Hughes, Sonya M, Fomby, Thomas B, Luby, James P, Haley, Robert W

“…IMPORTANCE After progressive declines over recent years, in 2012 West Nile virus epidemics resurged nationwide, with the greatest number of cases centered in…”
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Prediction‐based adaptive compositional model for seasonal time series analysis by Chang, Kun, Chen, Rong, Fomby, Thomas B.

“…In this paper we propose a new class of seasonal time series models, based on a stable seasonal composition assumption. With the objective of forecasting the…”
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Using a Positive Deviance Approach to Influence the Culture of Patient Safety Related to Infection Prevention by Sreeramoju, Pranavi, Dura, Lucia, Fernandez, Maria E, Minhajuddin, Abu, Simacek, Kristina, Fomby, Thomas B, Doebbeling, Bradley N

“…Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are a socio-technical problem. We evaluated the impact of a social change intervention on health care personnel (HCP),…”
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Return Dependence and the Limits of Product Diversification in Financial Firms by FOMBY, THOMAS B., GUNTHER, JEFFERY W., HU, JIAN

“…Copula-GRAPH models indicate dependence between bank returns and those to insurance underwriting, securities brokerage, and mortgage finance increased during…”
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Large shocks, small shocks, and economic fluctuations: Outliers in macroeconomic time series by Balke, Nathan S., Fomby, Thomas B.

“…We analyse fifteen post-World War II US macroeconomic time series using a modified outlier identification procedure based on Tsay (1988a). `Large shocks'…”
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The Application of Size-Robust Trend Statistics to Global-Warming Temperature Series by Fomby, Thomas B., Vogelsang, Timothy J.

“…In this note, new evidence is provided confirming that global temperature series spanning back to the mid-1800s have statistically significant positive trends…”
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A CHANGE POINT ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF "ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM" ON AGGREGATE AIR QUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: 1940-98 by FOMBY, THOMAS B., LIN, LIMIN

“…During President Reagan's administration, environmental policy making was substantially shifted from the federal level to the state and local levels. We use…”
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Epidemiological similarities between appendicitis and diverticulitis suggesting a common underlying pathogenesis by Livingston, Edward H, Fomby, Thomas B, Woodward, Wayne A, Haley, Robert W

“…Nonperforating appendicitis is primarily a disease of children, and nonperforating diverticulitis affects mostly older adults. Apart from these age…”
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Association of viral infection and appendicitis by Alder, Adam C, Fomby, Thomas B, Woodward, Wayne A, Haley, Robert W, Sarosi, George, Livingston, Edward H

“…What causes appendicitis is not known; however, studies have suggested a relationship between viral diseases and appendicitis. Building on evidence of cyclic…”
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Forecasting With Stable Seasonal Pattern Models With an Application to Hawaiian Tourism Data by Chen, Rong, Fomby, Thomas B.

“…We propose several variations of the stable seasonal pattern (SSP) model first introduced by Marshall and Oliver and study their prediction procedures…”
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THE GROWTH AFTERMATH OF NATURAL DISASTERS by Fomby, Thomas, Ikeda, Yuki, Loayza, Norman V.

“…This paper traces the yearly response of gross domestic product growth—both aggregated and disaggregated into its agricultural and non-agricultural…”
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Application of Stein Rules to Combination Forecasting by Fomby, Thomas B., Samanta, Subarna K.

“…We propose some Stein-rule combination forecasting methods that are designed to ameliorate the estimation risk inherent in making operational the…”
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Application of Stein Rules to Combination Forecasting by Fomby, Thomas B., Samanta, Subarna K.

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A Comparison of Forecasting Accuracies of Alternative Regional Production Index Methodologies by Fomby, Thomas B.

“…This article examines the forecasting accuracies of various methods used by Federal Reserve Banks to estimate real value added by regional manufacturing…”
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MSE Evaluation of Shiller's Smoothness Priors by Fomby, Thomas B.

“…The mean squared error (MSE) test methodology allows researchers to more effectively employ smoothness priors in the usual sampling theory context. There are 3…”
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Multicollinearity and the Minimax Conditions of the Bock Stein-like Estimator by Fomby, Thomas B., Hill, R. Carter

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An Optimal Property of Principal Components in the Context of Restricted Least Squares by Fomby, Thomas B., Hill, R. Carter, Johnson, Stan R.

“…A new optimal property for principal components regression is presented. In particular, it is shown that the trace of the covariance matrix for estimators…”
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Deletion Criteria for Principal Components Regression Analysis by Fomby, Thomas B., Hill, R. Carter

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