Everybody loves democracy—except, that is, when a majority tramples the rights of a minority. Constitutional safeguards provide some protection against the preferences of the many, but these ...

This article studies the accuracy of two versions of Kydland and Prescott's (1980, 1982) procedure for approximating optimal decision rules in problems in which the objective fails to be quadratic and ...

In a [previous post](/dotphysics/2008/09/basics-making-graphs-with-kinematics-stuff-part-ii/), I talked about how to plot kinematics data with a spread sheet and how ...

In developing quality-control procedures, a step-loss function has been used implicitly or explicitly to describe consumer perceptions about product quality. A quadratic loss function has been ...

Google's latest animated Doodle celebrates the quadratic equation, transforming its homepage into an interactive classroom.

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