Austrian Journal of Statistics, 2018 Compositional data analysis formed a main focus of statistical activities at Hong Kong University when Professor John Aitchison was head of the Statistics department.
Shirley Yvonne Coleman
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Measuring economic inequality and risk: a unifying approach based on personal gambles, societal preferences and references [PDF]
, 2015 The underlying idea behind the construction of indices of economic inequality is based on measuring deviations of various portions of low incomes from certain references or benchmarks, that could be point measures like population mean or median, or ...
Greselin, Francesca, Zitikis, Ricardas
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Professor Zdzisław Hellwig 1925 – 2013. Renaissance style giant
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2015 On 8th November 2013, with great sadness we said goodbye to our dear Master and Teacher, Professor Zdzisław Hellwig. He walked away from us forever. Professor Zdzisław Hellwig (1925 – 2013) was a great man with impressive biography.
Józef Dziechciarz
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Statistical Hypothesis Testing: A Comprehensive Review of Theory, Methods, and Applications
MathematicsStatistical hypothesis testing is a foundational concept in inferential statistics, providing formal mechanisms for evaluating evidence and making decisions.
Vesna Rajić
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Estimating the Causal Effects of Marketing Interventions Using Propensity Score Methodology
, 2006 Propensity score methods were proposed by Rosenbaum and Rubin [Biometrika 70 (1983) 41--55] as central tools to help assess the causal effects of interventions.
Rubin, Donald B., Waterman, Richard P.
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 253:Spatial Interactions in Hedonic Pricing Models: The Urban Housing Market of Aveiro, Portugal [PDF]
, 2011 Spatial heterogeneity, spatial dependence and spatial scale constitute key features of spatial analysis of housing markets. However, the common practice of modelling spatial dependence as being generated by spatial interactions through a known spatial ...
Anselmo de Castro, Eduardo +2 more
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Determining Distribution for the Product of Random Variables by Using Copulas
Risks, 2019 Determining distributions of the functions of random variables is one of the most important problems in statistics and applied mathematics because distributions of functions have wide range of applications in numerous areas in economics, finance, risk ...
Sel Ly +3 more
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One for all, all for one---von Neumann, Wald, Rawls, and Pareto
, 2020 Applications of the maximin criterion extend beyond economics to statistics, computer science, politics, and operations research. However, the maximin criterion---be it von Neumann's, Wald's, or Rawls'---draws fierce criticism due to its extremely ...
Ismail, Mehmet S.
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The determinants of United Kingdom student visa demand from developing countries [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyzes the demand for UK educational services by international students through investigating the demand for student visas to the UK from 89 developing countries covering the period 2001 to 2008. The substantive findings of this research are
Jena, Farai, Reilly, Barry
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Child adoption matching: preferences for gender and race [PDF]
, 2013 This paper uses a new dataset on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over US-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and against African American
Baccara, Mariagiovanna +3 more
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