Lately, much, but not inordinate, attention has been focused on baseball executives who know how to tickle marginal insights from numbers -- insights like the fact that inexpensive players trapped in the high minor leagues are often satisfactory replacements for expensive but mediocre major leaguers.
What made Menger (along with economists William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras) a founder of the marginal utility revolution was the insight that goods are valuable because they serve various uses whose importance differs.
We gain insight from the marginal likelihoods, by computing Bayes factors, for model comparison and model selection.
Traffic conflicts are more frequent than road collisions and are of marginal social cost, they provide insight into the failure mechanism that leads to road collisions, and BA studies based on traffic conflicts can be conducted over shorter periods.
However, marginal parenchymatic bands can give insight into fine scale variation in growth conditions and the past management of trees.
Solving the model leads to several new insights, including that the marginal cost of adding a traveler is especially sensitive to the lowest level of capacity reached.
Har'el tells the story of three or four of these marginal souls, and does so with compassion and insight.
An additional insight was also provided by analyzing the marginal effects, which was calculated as the partial derivatives of the non-linear probability function, evaluated at each variable sample mean in line with Greene (2008).
It is generally best, in any case, to consider history as marginal to the humanities and social sciences, since its insights and techniques pervade both.
It is the marginal annotations of Catherine Walston - 'C' - that provide the richest insights into perhaps the most secret of Greene's many love affairs.
