Wissenschaftliche LiteraturStatistics

Darjo Felda, Jurka Lepicnik Vodopivec, Mirjam Bon Klanjšcek

Teaching Statistics and Statistical Literacy

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

In real-world environments we are faced with large amounts of information that is found in newspapers, in magazines, on television, on the Internet, and elsewhere, and that is often presented in the form of tables or graphs. Today statistical data are, unfortunately, quite often abused, mainly because of lack of…

Mirjam Bon Klanjšček / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Darjo Felda

Statistical Literacy Among Secondary School Students

Achieving a Higher Level of Statistical Literacy

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The statistical education should be in step with modern didactic trends, which recommend the use of statistics in relation to everyday life and thus develop and improve statistical literacy. But as statistics is made part of mathematics instruction, solving statistical problems tends to be dominated by mathematical…

George Indruszewski

The four dimensions of Upper Lusatia in the Early and High Middle Ages:
A cultural-geographical study of the historical landscape

Based on a GIS-Simulation of landscape reconstruction

Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Mittelalters

Die Oberlausitz, die heutige Grenzregion zwischen Deutschland, Polen, und Tschechien bietet ein interessantes Beispiel für eine GIS-basierte kulturelle und landschaftliche Rekonstruktion seiner multiethnischen Gesellschaft die durch mehr als 1000 Jahre Geschichte verfolgen sein kann. Diese Rekonstruktion der…

Veronika Schmidt

Quantitative Film Studies

Regularities and Interrelations Exemplified by Shot Lengths in Soviet Feature Films

Schriften zur Medienwissenschaft

In statistical film analysis it is a common observation that shot length frequencies are not distributed haphazardly, but according to a particular pattern. Taking this as a starting point, the monograph focuses on two main questions. The first one is: Are shot lengths in Soviet feature films distributed regularly,…

Manuel Schieler

Causal Inference in Empirical Applications Using Individual- and Aggregate-Level Data

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This thesis is structured in two main parts that contain our analyses using individualand aggregate-level data.

Our first part introduces a new dataset on the individual level, which we use to investigate economic questions in the fields of labor economics and economics of education. More specifically, it…

Frowin C. Schulz

Quadratic Variation of Financial Asset Prices

Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence on Power Derivatives

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Financial asset prices differ not only in their level and trajectory, but also in their magnitude and type of variability within trading periods. As financial agents require quantifying the price variability of a financial asset over a certain period of time in many risk- and valuation-related applications, it is…

Veit Köppen, Roland M. Müller (Eds.)

Business Intelligence: Methods and Applications

Essays in Honor of Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Lenz

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

This Festschrift is a collection of articles by colleagues and (former) students of Prof. Hans-J. Lenz to honor his work in the field of Business Intelligence.

The 18 articles provide interesting insights into many methods and applications of this innovative topic, such as data warehousing, statistics,…