The concept of slope is important in economics because it is used to measure the rate at which changes are taking place. Economists often look at how things change and about how one item changes in ...

Finding the slope of a linear function is straightforward. Furthermore the slope is the same at each point on the function. However this is not the case with non-linear functions. A non-linear ...

A locally most powerful test is developed for the hypothesis that a slope coefficient in a linear time series model is stable, against the alternative that the slope shifts exactly once somewhere in ...