The Proportional First Differences (PFD) benchmarking method proposed by Denton (1971) is a widely used solution for distribution, but in extrapolation it may suffer when the movements in the ...

My own lengthy contribution is an excerpt from work in progress. In the context of scientific principles from which the distinctive formulaic nature of SF arises, it anatomizes an essential generic ...

Let’s get this out of the way: I am not a statistician. That much should have been made clear by what I write at this point. I know the analytical terms, what they mean, roughly how they are ...

This report will support health technology assessments in cases where appropriate data are lacking: where extrapolation is needed beyond the observed data. TSD 14 and TSD 21 have addressed model-based ...