356 results
Showing 1–20 · 1.22 seconds · RSS
Revista Română de Statistică
ISSN 1018-046X · Romanian National Institute of Statistics · 356 articles in the index
-
Journal Article Full text
Input-Output Coefficients of the Romanian Economy – Annual Data 1989-2016, Current Prices –
Using the INS comprehensive input-output tables, the present work re-estimates data for a fourteen sectoral structure of the Romanian economy. With simple additional computations, this structure can be transformed into four mega-fields classification: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary…
-
Journal Article Full text
Romania’s place in the European Union – Economic, Social and Managerial
Romania has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 2007. Accession has taken place following intense preparation, the documents agreed and signed being an undeniable test. It would have been normal for Romania’s economy to be equally prepared to be able to integrate quickly and to get…
-
Journal Article Full text
Study on the Convergence Behavior of Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Laplace Mixture Model
Laplace mixture model is widely used in lifetime applications. The estimation of model parameters is required to analyze the data. In this paper, the expectation maximization algorithm is used to obtain the estimates of parameters. The algorithm is a widely applicable approach to the iterative…
-
Journal Article Full text
Key Features of the Internal Migration Process in Romania – An Economic and Historical Perspective
Internal migration is one of the most important drivers for reducing poverty and facilitating economic development. However, the factors that affect population mobility within a country, as well as the relationship between internal migration and economic development, are difficult to understand…
-
Journal Article Full text
Local Factors Explaining the Incidence of Criminal Offences in Romania. A Geographically Weighted Regression Model
Criminality has long became a matter of increasing concern for national and local decision makers alike, given the high disturbances, hardships and adversities it brings to the social and economic environment. In the last decades the number of criminal offences displayed growing territorial…
-
Journal Article Full text
An Analysis of the Pension Systems’performance and Efficiency Using Radar Chart and Dea Malmquist Method
Most of the European countries are worried about the ageing phenomenon and work to improve their pensions systems and labour force. Within this research, one of our objective is to analyze and measure the efficiency of pension systems. For this purpose, we used several indicators referring to the…
-
Journal Article Full text
The Use and Misuse of Statistics in Research: Theory and Practice
Purpose: The article discusses whether the use of statistical approaches is a real necessity or a publication bias, resulting from the adoption of the structure of experimental and basic research articles by most journals under the positivist influence. Methodology: The analysis differentiates…
-
Journal Article Full text
Nexus between Financial Development, Trade Openness, and Economic Growth: the Case of Malaysia
This study aims to examine the long-run equilibrium and short-run relationships between financial development, trade openness, and economic growth in Malaysia by using a sample for the period 1982-2014. The ARDL bounds test for cointegration approach and Granger causality test were applied to…
-
Journal Article Full text
Advanced Parental Age and Wide Age Gap Effects on Human Secondary Sex Ratio in Romania
This paper aims to analyze the effects of parental age (especially advanced parental age) and age difference between parents on the probability of having a male/female offspring. The rationale of choosing this topic is based on the tendency of women to give birth at advanced age (>=35 years) and…
-
Journal Article Full text
Vocational training in organizations and cognitive changes in work processes
The rhythm in which the knowledge economy, the pace in which the future rushes in the economy, in the social environment, in the everyday life of the individual, forces the human limits, subjecting the organizations and individuals to the social stress of inadequacy. The accelerate dynamics…
-
Journal Article Full text
Impact of remittances on the country of origin. Multidimensional analysis at macro and microeconomic level. Case study Romania and Moldova
This research investigates the remittances impact, from the country of origin perspective, on economic growth at macro and micro level of the household in Romania and Moldova. We decided to carry out a comparative analysis due to the importance of these external financial flows to the economy…
-
Journal Article Full text
An R package for calculating repeat-sale price indices
Residential property price indices are valuable indicators of economic activity and financial stability. Calculating pure, quality adjusted price changes using real estate data presents a number of obstacles, however, as properties each have a unique set of price determining characteristics. The…
-
Journal Article Full text
CEO Duality and firm profitability. Evidence from emerging Europe
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of corporate governance characteristic, CEO duality, on firm profitability using as measures of profitability return on assets ratio (ROA) and return on equity ratio (ROE). Our sample is composed of listed companies from Central and Eastern European…
-
Journal Article Full text
Generalization for Improvement of the Reliability Score for Autocoding
We developed the supervised multiclass classifier for autocoding in our previous study. The classifier assigns corresponding classification codes based on reliability scores. The purpose of this study is the generalization of the reliability score for more accurate classification. The previously…
-
Journal Article Full text
Tempo – an R package to access the TEMPO-Online database
One of the objectives of official statistical authorities is to extend and diversify the methods used to disseminate data, in order to satisfy various and ever-changing user needs. This paper presents the second iteration of Tempo, an R package that provides access to statistical information stored…
-
Journal Article Full text
The World Demographic Evolution and their Impact on Economic Growth
The paper aims to reveal the main aspects of the global demographic evolution between 1800-2017 and the prospect until 2100, as well as the shocks recorded in different parts of the globe. The analysis begins with the real view of the demographic situation of the world population of the twentieth…
-
Journal Article Full text
Integration of Survey Data in R Based on Machine Learning
This work introduces a relatively new procedure for integrating social survey data through combined use of machine learning techniques and well-known statistical matching methods. The integration is performed with the scope of studying the relationship between variables not jointly observed in the…
-
Journal Article Full text
Structural Models Based on Associating The Foreign Direct Investment (Fdi) Inflows and Outflows, in Some of The Ex-Socialist, Central and Eastern European Countries (Ceec -10)
The introduction to the paper starts from the natural hypothesis of uncompensated or partially compensated flows concerning the FDI flows in some of the ex-socialist, Central and Eastern European (CEEC-10) EU countries. In the first section, from the analysis of the association of FDI outputs and…
-
Journal Article Full text
R tools for ILOSTAT: Rilostat and SMART
This article presents Rilostat and SMART, two statistical tools developed by the Department of Statistics of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to facilitate the user interaction with ILOSTAT, the largest repository of labour-related indica-tors. The package Rilostat allows data users…
-
Journal Article Full text
Overcoming R angst. The tools that help statisticians learn and use R effectively
This paper makes a review of the most popular graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in order to help new and unexperienced users learn and use R. Although R is free and benefits from state-of-the-art implementations of statistical algorithms and methods, it is not the first choice among statistical…