Life cycle versus balanced funds: An emerging market perspective
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017 Background: Inadequate retirement savings is an international challenge. Additionally, individuals are not cognisant of how asset allocation choices ultimately impact retirement savings.
Elbie Louw +2 more
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Precise synaptic efficacy alignment suggests potentiation dominated learning
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2016 Recent evidence suggests that parallel synapses from the same axonal branch onto the same dendritic branch have almost identical strength. It has been proposed that this alignment is only possible through learning rules that integrate activity over long ...
Christoph eHartmann +3 more
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Effects of primary productivity on beta diversity of ecological communities
Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2019 Aim Several ecological factors are predicted to affect beta diversity - the dissimilarity of communities among localities or through time. Considering the effect of primary productivity, there is a divergence in the literature concerning if it is ...
Leticia Siman Bora +3 more
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RSD: An R package to calculate stochastic dominance
SoftwareXStochastic dominance is a classical method for comparing two random variables using their probability distribution functions. As for all stochastic orders, stochastic dominance does not always establish an order between the random variables, and almost ...
Shayan Tohidi, Sigurdur Olafsson
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An optimal transportation approach for assessing almost stochastic order
, 2017 When stochastic dominance $F\leq_{st}G$ does not hold, we can improve agreement to stochastic order by suitably trimming both distributions. In this work we consider the $L_2-$Wasserstein distance, $\mathcal W_2$, to stochastic order of these trimmed ...
del Barrio, E. +2 more
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Indexing the Earth Mover's Distance Using Normal Distributions [PDF]
, 2011 Querying uncertain data sets (represented as probability distributions) presents many challenges due to the large amount of data involved and the difficulties comparing uncertainty between distributions.
Ruttenberg, Brian E., Singh, Ambuj K.
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Assessment of the dynamics of microparasite infections in genetically homogeneous and heterogeneous populations using a stochastic epidemic model [PDF]
, 2008 The aim of this paper was to explore the effect of genetic heterogeneity in host resistance to infection on the population-level risks and outcomes of epidemics.
Bishop, S. C. +2 more
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An experimental study of costly coordination [PDF]
, 2005 This paper reports data for coordination game experiments with random matching. The experimental design is based on changes in an effort-cost parameter, which do not alter the set of Nash equilibria nor do they alter the predictions of adjustment ...
Goeree, Jacob K., Holt, Charles A.
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Group decision rules and group rationality under risk [PDF]
, 2016 This paper investigates the rationality of group decisions versus individual decisions under risk. We study two group decision rules, majority and unanimity, in stochastic dominance and Allais paradox tasks.
Aurélien Baillon +3 more
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LDAcoop: Integrating non‐linear population dynamics into the analysis of clonogenic growth in vitro
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Limiting dilution assays (LDAs) quantify clonogenic growth by seeding serial dilutions of cells and scoring wells for colony formation. The fraction of negative wells is plotted against cells seeded and analyzed using the non‐linear modeling of LDAcoop.
Nikko Brix +13 more
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