Professors Barber and Odean studied the accounts of more than 750,000 individual investors from three brokerage firms from February 1991 through June 1999.
Jean Shaoul, of the University of Manchester's business school, has studied the accounts of the first 12 hospital PFI projects and reckons that the companies concerned were earning an average return for shareholders of 58%.
"Platform" looks at how to use game theory in personal branding, explaining how to build a bigger social media following by studying the accounts of people with the kind of followers you want.
In the second step of the analysis, the first author studied the accounts of the main themes identified.
With this view in mind, we studied the accounting models of various service providers for two basic resource types, storage and processor.
Sometimes he daydreamed about the beautiful ancient charts he had studied and the accounts of a marvelous pilgrimage undertaken by a Russian monk.
The report gave no independent estimate of the extent of any such reduction, and it noted that the assessment had been inferred only from private studies and the accounts of employers and aliens.
Mr. Sides, a contributing editor for Outside magazine, interviewed the survivors, read the relevant memoirs and studied historians' accounts of the Philippine campaign.
Beyond sifting through death certificates, hospital ledgers and other official inventories of exit stories, the researchers are studying newspaper accounts of the racier fatalities, diaries, personal letters, any source they can disinter short of hauling out a shovel.
To study accounts of the 9/11 hijackers as they gathered in Hamburg is to realize just how faint a conception they had of American society, and how abstracted their objections to it were.
