Investopedia

Linear Price Scale: What It is, How It Works, Example

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
The Atlantic

Is There a Better Way to Measure Earthquakes?

Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...
Mother Jones

Chart Trivia: Which Is Better, Log or Linear?

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...
JSTOR Daily

Quasi-Symmetric Graphical Log-Linear Models

We propose an extension of graphical log-linear models to allow for symmetry constraints on some interaction parameters that represent homologous factors. The conditional independence structure of ...
JSTOR Daily

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model Determination for Hierarchical and Graphical Log-Linear Models

We use reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (Green, 1995) to develop strategies for calculating posterior probabilities of hierarchical, graphical or decomposable log-linear models for ...