Black threat and incarceration in postbellum Georgia

MA Myers - Social Forces, 1990 - academic.oup.com
The relative size of the black population has been linked with the exercise of social control in
both contemporary and historical contexts. In this article I use data from late nineteenth …

Short-term peak demand forecasting in fast developing utility with inherit dynamic load characteristics. I. Application of classical time-series methods. II. Improved …

EH Barakat, MA Qayyum, MN Hamed… - … on Power Systems, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimates of the peak demand pertaining to a typical fast-growing system with inherit
dynamic load characteristics are derived from three classical time-series forecasting …

Prediction of the Mullidae fishery in the eastern Mediterranean 24 months in advance

KI Stergiou - Fisheries Research, 1990 - Elsevier
The following stochastic, seasonal AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)
model is presented (1− 0.679B 1)(1− B 1)(1− B 12) X t=(1− 0.951B 1)(1− 0.564B 12) et …

Special problems of ground-water monitoring in karst terranes

JF Quinlan - Ground Water and Vadose Zone Monitoring, 1990 - astm.org
Reliable monitoring of ground-water quality in any terrane is difficult. There are many ways
in which violation of sound principles of monitoring-network design and good sampling …

Time-series decomposition using the sinusoidal model

LF Simmons - International Journal of Forecasting, 1990 - Elsevier
This paper empirically supports the hypothesis that a sinusoidal model can be used
successfully to decompose time-series data into its components. Since the length of the …

An approach for selecting times series forecasting models

E Mahmoud, CC Pegels - International Journal of Operations & …, 1990 - emerald.com
A method is developed for evaluating forecasting models withrespect to both error and
complexity in forecasting. Several types offorecasting accuracy measures (MSE, MPE …

Economic threat and racial disparities in incarceration: The case of postbellum Georgia

MA Myers - Criminology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Economic threat figures prominently in recent explanations of lethal social control directed
against blacks after the Civil War. As the position of whites and blacks became more similar …

Improving short-term forecasts

NR Sanders, LP Ritzman - Omega, 1990 - Elsevier
This empirical study compares the accuracy of combined forecasts, found by averaging
individual forecasts from univariate time-series techniques, with judgmental forecasts …

Technology, work, and the organization: the impact of expert systems

RR Weitz - AI Magazine, 1990 - ojs.aaai.org
This article examines the near-term impact of expert system technology on work and the
organization. First, an approach is taken for forecasting the likely extent of the diffusion, or …

Predicting Doctorate Production in the USA: some lessons for long-range forecasters

B Pollack-Johnson, BV Dean, A Reisman… - International Journal of …, 1990 - Elsevier
The nine major independently conducted forecasts of doctoral degree production for the
1970s shared a consistently high bias, although one was quite accurate. In this paper we …