Calyampudi R. Rao, holder of the Eberly Family Chair in statistics and director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis, and M. Bhaskara Rao, professor of statistics at North Dakota State University and a frequent visitor to the Center for Multivariate Analysis, have written a new book, Matrix Algebra and Its Applications to Statistics and Econometrics.
The book, published by World Scientific, provides comprehensive coverage of the latest techniques in matrix algebra and can be used as a textbook.
Northern states, especially New England states, have abandoned historical preferences for the national Republican Party to vote in increasing percentages for Democratic presidential candidates in almost every election since 1952.
The reason, according to Robert W. Speel, assistant professor of political science at Penn State Erie, is that the national Republican Party's strategies for attracting Southern voters has succeed, but also has had the unintended effect of driving away many in the party's traditional base in the Northern states.
"Recent elections prove that the North-South regional divide remains strong in American politics," Speel said.
Speel's book on the topic, Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952-1996, is due to be published soon.
Unlike other recent studies on voter behavior, Speel's book relies on actual voting data rather than public opinion surveys to study trends, allowing for an in-depth analysis of the many types of voting patterns found in individual states.