04197nam 2200625 450 991045973100332120200520144314.01-4426-5738-310.3138/9781442657380(CKB)3710000000324288(EBL)3296888(SSID)ssj0001403571(PQKBManifestationID)12571049(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403571(PQKBWorkID)11369871(PQKB)11683342(MiAaPQ)EBC4669978(DE-B1597)465579(OCoLC)979743179(DE-B1597)9781442657380(Au-PeEL)EBL4669978(CaPaEBR)ebr11256492(OCoLC)958578395(EXLCZ)99371000000032428820160920h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe filled pen selected non-fictionToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2007.©20071 online resource (152 p.)HeritageIncludes index.0-8020-9108-3 0-8020-9399-X Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Author's Foreword --Editor's Introduction --A Writer's Life --Safe at Home --Falling in Love with Poetry --Had I Not Been a Writer, What Would I Have Been? --Questions and Images --Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman --Afterword to A Flask of Sea Water --Fairy Tales, Folk Tales: The Language of the Imagination --Foreword to Hologram --The Sense of Angels: Reflections on A.M. Klein --Notes on Re-reading George Johnston --Afterword to The Innocent Traveller --Afterword to Emily's Quest --Afterword to Nights below Station Street --Darkinbad the Brightdayler: The Work of Pat Martin Bates --The World of Maxwell Bates --Max and My Mother --Review of The Company of Strangers --Textual Notes --IndexP.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays - meditations - on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance for her. As lovers of her poetry would hope and expect, these essays are beautiful, intelligent, moving, and delightfully quirky. The Filled Pen brings together the most important of these essays, including two previously unpublished: A Writer's Life and Fairy Tales, Folk Tales: The Language of the Imagination.. Zailig Pollock, Page scholar and professor of English at Trent University, has edited and annotated this collection for admirers of Page's work, general readers, and academics alike.The essays, which cover a period of approximately forty years, reflect Page's enduring concerns as a verbal and visual artist with the power of art and the imagination to transcend the barriers that limit our perceptions of the world and our sympathies with our fellow human beings. Page is more interested in posing questions than imposing answers; and fascinated as she is by a wide range of ideas, from ancient mysticism to modern neurophysiology, it is images, endlessly evocative and suggestive, that matter to her most. Her comments on A.M. Klein from "A Sense of Angels", one of the most moving and perceptive tributes by one poet to another, apply very much to the P.K. Page we see in The Filled Pen: "For all his interest in the immediate world ... for all his acceptance of ideological and psychological theory, he seemed to reach beyond both to a larger reality."EssaysEssays20th centuryElectronic books.Essays.Essays808.4Page P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010(Patricia Kathleen),1916-2010.,967188Pollock Zailig, MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459731003321The filled pen2195682UNINA05701oam 22011894 450 991097028510332120250426110648.09781475558913147555891097814755346411475534647(CKB)2670000000278850(EBL)1606822(SSID)ssj0000943221(PQKBManifestationID)11503274(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000943221(PQKBWorkID)10975616(PQKB)10666785(Au-PeEL)EBL1606822(CaPaEBR)ebr10627071(OCoLC)797981387(IMF)WPIEE2012169(IMF)WPIEA2012169(MiAaPQ)EBC1606822WPIEA2012169(EXLCZ)99267000000027885020020129d2012 uf 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the Extrapolation with the Denton Proportional Benchmarking Method /Marco Marini, Tommaso Di Fonzo1st ed.Washington, D.C. :International Monetary Fund,2012.1 online resource (22 p.)IMF Working PapersDescription based upon print version of record.9781475591057 1475591055 9781475505177 1475505175 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Denton PFD Benchmarking Method; III. The Enhanced Denton PFD Method for Extrapolation; A. An Approximation of the Enhanced PFD Method; IV. An Example with Artificial Data; Tables; 1. Extrapolation Using Forecast BI Ratios (Example 6.2, QNA Manual, 2001); 2. Enhanced Denton PFD: Comparison Between the Shortcut and the Analytical Solution; 3. Enhanced Denton PFD: Comparison with the Indicator Series; 4. Basic Denton PFD vs. Enhanced Denton PFD: MSD of Quarterly Growth Rates5. Enhanced Denton PFD: Comparison Between the Analytical Solution and the Shortcut Version with Different BI RatiosV. An Application to Real-Life Data; 6. Forecasting Manufacturing Value Added in 2009 Using IPI: a Comparison Between PFD and EPFD; VI. Conclusions; ReferencesStatistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA). Benchmarking methods employ quarterly indicator series (i) to distribute annual, more reliable series of national accounts and (ii) to extrapolate the most recent quarters not yet covered by annual benchmarks. 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 indicator series do not match consistently the movements in the target annual benchmarks. For this reason, an enhanced formula for extrapolation was recommended by the IMF’s Quarterly National Accounts Manual: Concepts, Data Sources, and Compilation (2001). We discuss the rationale behind this technique, and propose a matrix formulation of it. In addition, we present applications of the enhanced formula to artificial and real-life benchmarking examples showing how the extrapolations for the most recent quarters can be improved.IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;No. 2012/169Benchmarking (Management)Managerial accountingData AccessimfDiffusion ProcessesimfDynamic AnalysisimfDynamic Quantile RegressionsimfDynamic Treatment Effect ModelsimfGeneral Aggregative Models: GeneralimfIndustrial productionimfIndustriesimfIndustries: GeneralimfIndustries: ManufacturingimfIndustry Studies: Manufacturing: GeneralimfMacroeconomicsimfMacroeconomics: ProductionimfManufacturing industriesimfManufacturingimfMethodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic DataimfNational accountsimfNational incomeimfOptimization TechniquesimfProgramming ModelsimfTime-Series ModelsimfKorea, Republic ofimfBenchmarking (Management)Managerial accounting.Data AccessDiffusion ProcessesDynamic AnalysisDynamic Quantile RegressionsDynamic Treatment Effect ModelsGeneral Aggregative Models: GeneralIndustrial productionIndustriesIndustries: GeneralIndustries: ManufacturingIndustry Studies: Manufacturing: GeneralMacroeconomicsMacroeconomics: ProductionManufacturing industriesManufacturingMethodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic DataNational accountsNational incomeOptimization TechniquesProgramming ModelsTime-Series Models300Marini Marco734096Di Fonzo Tommaso148119DcWaIMFBOOK9910970285103321On the Extrapolation with the Denton Proportional Benchmarking Method4372348UNINA