Short term forecasting: An introduction to the Box-Jenkins approach

By Thomas M. O'Donovan

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...form particularly noticed in Tibet, among the Todas, among the primitive Arabs and the ancient Bretons, is fraternal polyandry, which forms the passage from the paternal to the maternal form. The oldest member of one clan takes a wife from a stranger clan, who subsequently becomes the wife of his other brothers and sometimes also of their nearest relatives. The first pays at the outset the entire dower, for which the others afterwards reimburse him, each according to his share. The causes of this institution rest on considerations of economy, the scarcity of women, or the advantage arising from the concentration of heritages in a single family. Nevertheless, the Toda who can afford a wife all to himself never lacks one. Another form, of which the Nairs of Malabar are the type, is as follows: The woman remains at home and accepts from the hands of her relatives from four to twelve husbands (provided they are of the same caste), who jointly supply her needs. In this case the children never know who is their father, and can only bear the name of their mother, whilst in the preceding case they had a collective paternity of the same name. What complicates the situation in the case of the Nairs is that each of the husbands can enter into other conjugal relations of the same kind. The third is one of the forms of marriage preserved in the Malay Archipelago. The woman remains in the family of her mother, where she is engaged in its management. The husband lives and works in the family of his mother. The father is a nearer relative of the members of his maternal family than he is of his own children. The maternal uncle is the chief of the family; lacking him, the eldest son, if he is old enough; lacking both, the mother. The father does not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471900133
• ISBN13: 9780471900139
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.