Rigoberto Perez Suarez

Rigoberto Perez Suarez
  • Degree in Mathematics., PhD in Economics
  • Head of Department at University of Oviedo

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University of Oviedo
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September 1981 - present
University of Oviedo
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Environmental sustainability was established by the United Nations as a Millennium Development Goal (MDG7), including a wide variety of targets referred to the access to safe drinking water, the reduction of biodiversity loss, the improvement of lives of slum dwellers and the integration of principles of sustainable development into the country pol...
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As more and more daily activities take place online, data on internet behaviour is becoming a key information source. In this sense, several papers have explored the usefulness of internet search data in order to improve the nowcasting and forecasting of economic indicators. Special attention has been paid to predicting unemployment. Nonetheless, m...
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La hipotesis de Kuznets segun la cual el crecimiento conduce en sus fases iniciales a una mayor desigualdad de renta y posteriormente a una mayor igualdad , ha suscitado una gran controversia basada tanto en aportaciones analiticas como empiricas. Asi, desde el punto de vista analitico conviene tener presente que el modelo de "U invertida" de Kuzne...
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The analysis of different economic situations and risk factors is necessary in order to define forecasting scenarios properly. The paper focuses on the shift-share model as a useful tool in the definition of scenarios, based on the different components contributing to the change of a given economic variable (national, sectoral and competitive effec...
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Econometrics has become increasingly important in Economics and Business degrees, since it appears to be narrowly related to several main skills and competencies as information management, creativity, problem‐solving or decision‐making. Furthermore, the development of information technologies, including econometric software, makes it possible to le...
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The information theory developed by Shannon defines the entropy for any probabilistic system as a measure of the related uncertainty. The contributions to this Special Issue "Entropy Application for Forecasting" show the enormous potential of entropy and information theory in forecasting, including both theoretical developments and empirical applic...
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Este libro es resultado de un trabajo desarrollado durante los últimos años y surge motivado por tres convicciones fundamentales. La primera es la necesidad de formar individuos capaces de analizar e interpretar el funcionamiento de la economía, trabajando competencias relacionadas con la Econometría, como la capacidad de análisis y síntesis, la r...
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The role of uncertainty has become increasingly important in economic forecasting, due to both theoretical and empirical reasons. Although the traditional practice consisted of reporting point predictions without specifying the attached probabilities, uncertainty about the prospects deserves increasing attention, and recent literature has tried to...
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Training individuals capable of analysing, understanding and explaining the functioning of the economy is a big challenge for Schools of Economics and Business. In this context, Econometrics can be considered as a strategic tool, providing competences referred to the ability to search, process and analyse information, and identify, pose and solve p...
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In many of his writings, lectures and talks Pedro Gil emphasized the wide variety of economic applications of Information Theory. In this paper, as a tribute to him, we aim to provide some insight into this topic, mainly referred to income inequality, industrial concentration and economic forecasting.
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In the context of the Economics and Business degrees, Econometrics provide a wide variety of tools which appear to be narrowly related to several main competences such as information management, creativity, problem solving or decision-making. Furthermore, the need of analyzing and interpreting the functioning of the economy suggests the convenience...
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In the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) has been approved connecting the issues of multidimensional poverty, inequality and exclusion, and sustainability. Seven of these goals are referred to environmental sustainability, thus significantly increasing the weight assigned to t...
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Economic and financial time series are widely considered as one of the most challenging applications of modeling and forecasting. The increasing in forecasting availability and the controversial debate about the advantages of alternative forecasting procedures suggest the need of further research on the forecasting evaluation metrics. In this conte...
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La predicción económica es una actividad tan apasionante como controvertida. A pesar del consenso generalizado sobre su necesidad, existe un amplio debate sobre la idoneidad de las técnicas y métodos para elaborar predicciones, las medidas para evaluar su precisión e incluso el papel que los organismos de prospectiva deben desempeñar en un entorno...
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In the context of Economics and Business degrees, Econometrics provide a wide variety of tools which appear to be narrowly related to several main competences such as information management, creativity, problem solving or decision-making. Furthermore, the need of analyzing and interpreting the functioning of the economy suggests the convenience of...
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Schools of Economics and Business face the challenge of training individuals capable of analysing, understanding and explaining the functioning of the economy. With this aim, Statistics and Econometrics can be considered as strategic tools, providing competences referred to the ability to search, process and analyse information, and identify, pose...
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Resumen: Los impactos medioambientales del crecimiento económico han sido puestos de manifiesto en un buen número de informes, que sugieren la necesidad de adoptar actuaciones encaminadas a integrar los principios de desarrollo sostenible en las políticas de los distintos países. Este es el caso de los Objetivos del Milenio de Naciones Unidas, que...
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This paper provides empirical evidence referred to environmental forecasting, including the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and the Environmental Logistic Curve (ELC). More specifically, we estimate country environmental logistic curves from a world database, combining different procedures as Verhulst’s, Pearl’s and Nonlinear Least Squares. From...
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In the last few years the term “big data” has gained popularity in order to refer to the vast amount of digital data which information and communication technologies are making possible to gather, store, diffuse and share in unprecedented ways. Economists have started to explore the potential of the “big data” coming from online search behaviour si...
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European universities are currently faced with the challenge of becoming a world quality reference by 2010, as agreed at the European Councils of Lisbon (2000) and Barcelona (2002). Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), when used effectively, can help to achieve this objective, by improving the flexibility and quality of learning and fa...
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The celebration of the International Year of Statistics in 2013 provides a good opportunity for emphasizing the role of statistical tools in the current lives and also for sharing professional experiences in a wide variety of fields. Focusing on the framework of Higher Education, Statistics and Econometrics have become increasingly important in sev...
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In this study we present an analytical approach to the growth-inequality relationship, adopting as a reference the Kuznets'inverted U. With this aim we consider not only the most common measures, but also new indicators based on the information theory: the quadratic and the double quadratic measures. The polynomic functions related to these measure...
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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Green Growth means "Fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies". Furthermore, since Sustainable Development provides an important context for Gr...
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1 <anaj@uniovi.es>, 2 <rigo@uniovi.es> Resumen En este trabajo resumimos nuestra experiencia de movilidad virtual en el ámbito del Campus Virtual Compartido del Grupo G9 (CVC-G9) que se inició en el curso 1999/2000 con la asignatura "Análisis de Datos Económicos" y previsiblemente finalizará en los próximos años, al completarse la implantación de l...
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La utilización de software libre y abierto (FOSS) aporta numerosas ventajas en el ámbito universitario, que resultan aún más patentes en el marco del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Las principales características del FOSS (libertad de uso de programas, acceso al código fuente, estudio y adaptación, distribución de copias e implementa...
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The need to establish a more complete and far-reaching Europe, strengthening its intellectual, cultural, social, scientific and technological dimensions was emphasized in the Bologna Declaration, signed by the European Ministers of Education in 1999. Since then, European universities have been involved in the development of the so-called European H...
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“Introducción a la Estadística Económica” es un texto que se adapta a la asignatura del mismo nombre incluida en el primer curso de los grados de Economía, Administración y Dirección de Empresas, Contabilidad y Finanzas y Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos de la Universidad de Oviedo. A lo largo de doce temas presentamos de forma sencilla pero...
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Este libro se estructura en un total 10 capítulos agrupados en tres partes, dedicadas respectivamente a Probabilidad (capítulos 1 a 4), Inferencia Estadística (capítulos 5 a 9) e Introducción a la Econometría (capítulos 9 y 10) y consideramos que sus contenidos pueden ser de utilidad tanto para estudiantes universitarios de diversos grados del ámbi...
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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) represent a combination of human needs and basic rights that every individual around the world should be able to enjoy. More specifically, a list of eight goals was agreed (referred to poverty, primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, diseases as AIDS and malaria, en...
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The increasing number of forecasting techniques raises questions about their accuracy, suggesting the need of evaluating alternative forecasting procedures. With this aim, this paper focuses on the last M-Competition developed by Makridakis and Hibon (2000), whose results have been compared with those obtained with two information measures: U Theil...
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From its very beginning, the Information Theory has been considered as a useful tool for economic analysis, since it provides suitable measures of inequality, industrial concentration or goodness of fit. One of the most widely used information measures is the Entropy proposed by Shannon. Given a variable X with probabilities: p 1 , p 2 ,. .. , p n...
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El objetivo es analizar el potencial del software libre como herramienta estratégica en el ámbito universitario, presentando, a pesar de las limitaciones de información estadística, algunas evidencias sobre la brecha digital existente e identificando oportunidades de mejora.
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The new economics and business degrees adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) must face the challenge of training individuals capable of analyzing and interpreting the functioning of the economy improving the well-being of the society. Therefore, econometrics should be considered as a strategic tool which is narrowly related with some...
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In this paper we summarize our experiences based in Blended Learning, which provide several interesting findings, based on both students ́and teachers ́ opinions. We have experienced that doing Econometrics is a good way of learning Econometrics, as it proves the teamwork developed with Gretl, which has shown to be a suitable, user-friendly, flexib...
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The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) provides the opportunity of exploring new ways of teaching and learning, emphasizing the role of students in the learning process. In the case of Econometrics (which will play an outstanding role in Economics and Business degrees), our experience has shown that doing Econometrics is a suitable way of learni...
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The development of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) suggests the convenience of exploring new ways of teaching and learning, emphasizing the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), student mobility and university networks. In this context, virtual campuses provide the opportunity of efficiently implement ICT and cooperat...
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La elaboración de predicciones de crecimiento sectorial regional es el principal objetivo de la red Hispalink desde hace más de dos décadas. En este trabajo, realizado en colaboración, se combinan las aportaciones de varios equipos regionales y el equipo central para describir el método de trabajo y algunas de nuestras experiencias en el ámbito de...
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La adaptación de las titulaciones al EEES requiere cambios significativos en el diseño de los contenidos formativos y en la metodología docente, por lo que resulta especialmente interesante contar para esta tarea con la opinión de todos los colectivos afectados: empleadores, egresados y, en particular, de los estudiantes actuales. En este contexto,...
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Rigoberto Pérez Suárez (rigo@uniovi.es) Matías Mayor Fernández (mmayorf@uniovi.es) Universidad de Oviedo Palabras clave: Competencias, Crédito ECTS, AulaNet La adopción del alumno como referencia del aprendizaje, que constituye una de las principales características del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), lleva asociados importantes retos...
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In the framework of the Information and Knowledge Society universities cannot longer be understood as individual institutions. Thus, the convenience of developing university networks has been emphasized, improving cooperation and dialogue at different spatial levels and encouraging the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve...
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El absentismo entre los estudiantes universitarios no es sólo una cuestión que preocupa a los docentes, sino que también inquieta a los propios estudiantes conocer los motivos por los que sus compañeros no asisten a clase y si ese absentismo se traduce en mejores/peores resultados. Esta comunicación se deriva de los resultados de una encuesta q...
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La diversidad de organismos dedicados a los análisis de prospectiva hace posible disponer de un amplio abanico de predicciones para el crecimiento económico, sugiriendo la conveniencia de llevar a cabo un resumen de las mismas mediante algún mecanismo de combinación. En este trabajo desarrollamos un nuevo procedimiento de combinación de prediccione...
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Econometrics are expected to play an instrumental role in Economics and Business degrees. Although the available information in quite scarce, according to the provisional guidelines these studies should train individuals capable of analyzing and interpreting the functioning of the economy, with the intention of improving the well-being of the socie...
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The analysis of different economic situations and risk factors is necessary in order to properly define forecasting scenarios. In this paper we focus on the shift-share model as a useful tool in the definition of scenarios, based on the different components contributing to the change of a given economic variable (national, sectoral and competitive...
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"In recent years, attention has been focused on the digital divide, defined as “the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to access Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and to their use of the Internet for a wide variety of activit...
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Las medidas de desigualdad tienen como objetivo resumir los desequilibrios distributivos existentes en una población, por lo que resulta conceptualmente deseable que puedan ser derivadas a partir de indicadores de la posición individual de cada uno de los individuos que integran dicha población. Este planteamiento ha llevado a autores como W.G. Run...
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The Kuznets´ hypothesis according to which inequality increases in the initial levels of development to decrease later on, after a certain point of return, has been the subject of great attention with many theoretical and empirical contributions. Thus, from the analytic point of view it has been pointed out that Kuznets “inverted-U” model is based...
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Although e-learning usually focuses on the student as the main actor of the learning process, there is no doubt that teachers also play an important role, refering not only to the development of the educative materials but also to the on-line assistance. One of the main challenges of the e-learning experiences is the assessment method, which should...
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In this study a measure of inequality is presented: the double quadratic measure, which could be obtained from two indicators of the family of additively decomposable inequality measures characterized by D. Zagier (1983). The double quadratic measure can be considered as a synthesis of individual inequality indicators. It is very sensitive to inequ...
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La elaboración de escenarios de futuro del empleo adquiere especial interés en el marco de la actual Estrategia Europea de Empleo, introducida en el Consejo de Lisboa (2000) con el objetivo de convertir a la Unión Europea en la economía más competitiva del mundo. Dado que las predicciones basadas en modelos econométricos deben ser interpretadas com...
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The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has introduced substantial social changes, including the dissemination of statistical information and teaching and learning methods. As a consequence, statistical courses can benefit greatly from the increasing availability of information, the use of statistical packages and the po...
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La elaboración de escenarios de futuro del empleo adquiere especial interés en el marco de la actual Estrategia Europea de Empleo, introducida en el Consejo de Lisboa (2000) con el objetivo de convertir a la Unión Europea en la economía más competitiva del mundo. Dado que las predicciones basadas en modelos econométricos deben ser interpretadas com...
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In this study two measures of information are presented: the double quadratic uncertainty and the double quadratic uncertainty involving utilities, studying their main properties. The double quadratic uncertainty is determined by two indexes in the family of uncertainty measures of order beta. The double quadratic uncertainty involving utilities i...
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The analysis of different economic situations and risk factors is necessary in order to properly define forecasting scenarios. In this paper we focus on the shift-share model as a useful tool in the definition of economic scenarios, based on the different components that contribute to the change of a given economic magnitude (the so called national...
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The explanation of economic inequality and its relationship to growth has produced a great amount of research. Kuznets (1955) formulated the “inverted-U” hypothesis according to which inequality increases in the initial levels of development to decrease later on, after a certain point of return. This proposition has been the subject of great attent...
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Este trabajo se plantea como objetivo analizar el crecimiento y la distribución de la renta en Asturias, describiendo los rasgos más relevantes de la evolución económica regional, sus perspectivas futuras y sus principales desequilibrios socioeconómicos.
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En los últimos años estamos asistiendo al desarrollo y expansión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TICs) y de la irrupción de Internet en el ámbito de la educación que llevan a las distintas instituciones educativas, que están introduciéndose en este ámbito, no sólo a la creación de campus virtuales, sino también a l...
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have introduced main changes in the dissemination and treatment of the statistical information, also affecting the teaching and learning methods. The universities must currently face the challenge of ensuring that technological innovation really serves education, adapting their degrees and teaching m...
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Several papers have dealt with methodological and application issues related to techniques for decomposing changes in environmental indicators. This paper aims to decompose changes in electricity intensity in Spanish industry and to explain the factors that contribute to these changes. Focusing on an energy intensity approach based on Divisia indic...
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La denominada Sociedad de la Información, caracterizada por el uso intensivo de las nuevas tecnologías, ha supuesto un mayor protagonismo de la información estadística, gracias tanto a su mayor accesibilidad como a la existencia de nuevos medios para su tratamiento. Esta situación conlleva asimismo nuevas necesidades formativas para los ciudadanos...
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Las medidas de información proporcionan un contexto adecuado para el estudio de la asociación entre dos o más características. Algunos autores como C. Rajski (1961, 1964), P. Gil (1981), N. Muñoz y M. Alvargonzález (1991, 1992), entre otros, han definido indicadores de asociación entre caracteres basados en medidas de incertidumbre, incertidumbre ú...
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Hace ya cuatro años, durante la Reunión Asepelt celebrada en Burgos, presentábamos lo que entonces constituía un proyecto denominado AulaNet, que actualmente se ha consolidado como aula virtual de la Universidad de Oviedo en la que se incluyen más de 130 asignaturas y más de 6700 alumnos. La asignatura Análisis de Datos Económicos ha experimentado...
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Las universidades integrantes del G7 de universidades pusieron en marcha en el 99-2000 una experiencia de Campus Virtual Compartido que en l a actualidad acoge tres proyectos: Asignaturas de libre configuración, no presenciales, compartidas (en la actualidad dicho Campus Virtual Compartido del G7 de universidades (CVCG7) acoge 15 asignaturas y gest...
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The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has introduced main social changes including the educational system. Since the universities are now faced with the challenge of efficiently implementing the ICT, several actions have been encouraged by european and national authorities, involving both public and private institution...
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During the last decades, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have introduced main changes in both the dissemination of statistical information and the teaching and learning methods. In this paper we describe our three-year experience referred to the on line course “Economic Data Analysis” included in the virtual campus of the Unive...
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Las universidades integrantes del G7 de universidades pusieron en marcha en el 99-2000 una experiencia de Campus Virtual Compartido que en l a actualidad acoge tres proyectos: Asignaturas de libre configuración, no presenciales, compartidas (en la actualidad dicho Campus Virtual Compartido del G7 de universidades (CVCG7) acoge 15 asignaturas y gest...
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Las universidades integrantes del G7 de universidades pusieron en marcha en el 99- 2000 una experiencia de Campus Virtual Compartido que en la actualidad acoge tres proyectos: Asignaturas de libre configuración, no presenciales, compartidas (en la actualidad dicho Campus Virtual Compartido del G7 de universidades (CVCG7) acoge 15 asignaturas y gest...
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Las universidades integrantes del G7 de universidades pusieron en marcha en el 99-2000 una experiencia de Campus Virtual Compartido que en l a actualidad acoge tres proyectos: Asignaturas de libre configuración, no presenciales, compartidas (en la actualidad dicho Campus Virtual Compartido del G7 de universidades (CVCG7) acoge 15 asignaturas y gest...
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The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has introduced substantial social changes, including teaching and learning methods. In this context, several projects have been encouraged by European and national authorities, involving both public and private institutions, mainly universities. AulaNet has been developed as a...
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La enseñanza universitaria afronta el reto de incorporar de forma eficiente las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC), adaptando la metodología docente a las nuevas necesidades y recursos. En este trabajo presentamos nuestra experiencia en el diseño e implementación de la asignatura Análisis de Datos Económicos (ADEnet), materia de...
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Modeling and prediction in some systems requires the simultaneous approximation of mappings and their derivatives to a certain finite order. In this paper, universal approximation capabilities of fuzzy systems are extended to this situation, by showing the denseness of some general classes of fuzzy models in appropriate function spaces where distan...
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La evolución económica de Asturias a lo largo de las últimas décadas ha estado caracterizada por cambios sustanciales en el origen y distribución de la renta regional, cuyo análisis es el objetivo del presente trabajo. En primer lugar, la información disponible ha experimentado importantes transformaciones en cuanto a su metodología de elaboración,...
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La enseñanza universitaria debe garantizar un uso eficiente de la información estadística mediante una formación adecuada de sus usuarios. Parece claro que ya nos encontramos en los tiempos vaticinados por H.G. Wells en los que “el pensamiento estadístico es tan necesario para ejercer la ciudadanía con eficiencia como la capacidad de leer y escribi...
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Durante las últimas décadas las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) han introducido cambios sustanciales en el ámbito universitario, situándonos en un entorno muy distinto al de hace pocos años. La enseñanza no puede permanecer impasible ante estas transformaciones, por lo que resulta necesario cambiar la metodología docente para...
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La tele-enseñanza (y más concretamente, la enseñanza en la red) se presenta como un nuevo método docente que, aprovechando los elementos anteriormente citados, aporta ventajas de diversa índole:flexibilidad de horario y lugar de la docencia, adaptación al ritmo de aprendizaje del alumno, aprendizaje no lineal, e interactividad entre agentes docente...
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Las técnicas econométricas constituyen herramientas cada día más imprescindibles para la investigación en Economía Aplicada. Nuestra experiencia docente en Econometría nos ha llevado a dos conclusiones fundamentales. En primer lugar, consideramos que el estudio de la que Econometría Teórica queda incompleto si el alumno no se adentra en la práctica...
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El análisis de la evolución coyuntural de una economía debe basarse en un adecuado tratamiento cuantitativo de la información estadística disponible. El esfuerzo realizado por el INE para la puesta en marcha del sistema de Contabilidad Nacional Trimestral ha impulsado en gran medida los análisis coyunturales, motivando la aparición de proyectos en...
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En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión metodológica de indicadores sintéticos de actividad y se realiza una propuesta de un indicador alerta para la economía asturiana. En la primera parte, se establecen diversas alternativas de cálculo, se revisan las propiedades exigibles a este tipo de indicadores y se analizan las características que debe...
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Los estudios de modelizacion regional han adquirido una importancia creciente como consecuencia del aumento de las disponibilidades de informacion y la mayor sensibilidad hacia las politicas territoriales. En el caso de la realidad asturiana, nos enfrentamos a un entorno economico fuertemente afectado por la marcha de la economia nacional y en el q...
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El análisis de los desequilibrios distributivos ocupa un papel cada vez más destacado en los estudios de Economía. Prueba de ello son los numerosos trabajos que -desde distintas ópticas- se ocupan de la desigualdad y la pobreza. En este trabajo recogemos una propuesta de medidas de la desigualdad y la pobreza, que son derivadas conceptualmente y pa...
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El análisis de los desequilibrios distributivos ocupa un papel cada vez más destacado en los estudios de Economía. Prueba de ello son los numerosos trabajos que -desde distintas ópticas- se ocupan de la desigualdad y la pobreza. En este trabajo recogemos una propuesta de medidas de la desigualdad y la pobreza, que son derivadas conceptualmente y pa...
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Consider an experiment involving the observation of a discrete random variable, or quantitative classification process. When, in addition to the probability of each value or class we know its “utility” (or, more precisely, we can quantify the “nature” of each value or class), the “uncertainty corresponding to the utilities” may be evaluated. In thi...
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The problem of estimating the information conveyed about a random variable by another one in a population on the basis of a sample drawn at random and with replacement from it was exhaustively analysed previously. From a theoretical viewpoint, this analysis showed the advantages of the quadratic mutual information against Shannon's mutual informati...

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