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Progressive Pension Formula and Life Expectancy Heterogeneity
An increasing number of empirical studies have shown a positive relationship between lifetime income and life expectancy at retirement. One’s income during the active part of one’s career translates into the amount of retirement benefits one might ...
Keivan Diakite, Pierre Devolder
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Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, but its burden is not uniform. GLOBOCAN 2020 has newly updated the estimates of cancer burden.
W. Cao +4 more
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Theoretical Aspects on Measures of Directed Information with Simulations
Measures of directed information are obtained through classical measures of information by taking into account specific qualitative characteristics of each event.
Thomas Gkelsinis, Alex Karagrigoriou
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Analysis of biological and biomedical data with circular statistics [PDF]
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Craens, Domien, Ley, Christophe
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Robust Model Selection Criteria Based on Pseudodistances
In this paper, we introduce a new class of robust model selection criteria. These criteria are defined by estimators of the expected overall discrepancy using pseudodistances and the minimum pseudodistance principle.
Aida Toma +2 more
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Automated Quantification of Occupant Posture and Shoulder Belt Fit Using Safety Specific Key Points
Virtual evaluation of automotive safety with variation in occupant posture and shoulder belt fit is gaining importance, and there is a need of methods facilitating analysis of occupant postures in driving studies.
Franz Hartleitner +2 more
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Does the financial performance matter in accessing to finance for Libya's SMEs? [PDF]
This study investigates the impact of financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on access to finance in Libya. The study is based on the primary data of 557 survey questionnaires on SMEs in various sectors of different regions of
Khanam, Rasheda +2 more
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Do international standards influence the development of smart regions and cities? [PDF]
The growth of city population has consequences on the sustainability and development of smart regions. International standards can provide good practices in wide areas related to environmental, security and social aspects that contribute to the
Jelena Ruso +2 more
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Survey of Distances between the Most Popular Distributions
We present a number of upper and lower bounds for the total variation distances between the most popular probability distributions. In particular, some estimates of the total variation distances in the cases of multivariate Gaussian distributions ...
Mark Kelbert
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Measuring cosmic shear with the ring statistics [PDF]
Commonly used methods to decompose E- and B-modes in cosmic shear, namely the aperture mass dispersion and the E/B-mode shear correlation function, suffer from incomplete knowledge of the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on very small and/or very ...
Bartelmann +36 more
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