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Not All Missing Data are Equal: Choosing the Right Imputation Method for Binary Datasets
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Missing binary predictors are common in reliability, quality control, and industrial decision systems, yet imputation methods are often chosen by convenience rather than evidence. We conduct a Monte Carlo study comparing mode substitution, sequential hot‐deck, missForest, MICE, and KNN with three neighbourhood sizes under MCAR, MAR, and MNAR ...
Manuel Delfino, Fabio Rapallo
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Regional Sustainability Assessment Under Risk and Uncertainty: A Water–Energy–Food Based Framework
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regional sustainability assessment requires integrated structures that can examine the interactions between Water–Energy–Food (WEF) systems, socio‐economic risk conditions, and performance outcomes under uncertainty. This study proposes a multidimensional framework that combines a suitability index, composite sustainability indicators ...
Murat Oturakci
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development depends on economic, social, and environmental aspects, all of which play a key role in long‐term societal well‐being. While much of the existing literature emphasizes environmental aspects, the economic and social components, crucial for achieving SDG8, SDG10, and SDG16, are often overlooked in sustainable development ...
Tunahan Degirmenci
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Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010
Population Health Metrics, 2021 Background Although understanding changes in the body weight distribution and trends in obesity inequality plays a key role in assessing the causes and persistence of obesity, limited research on this topic is available for Cuba. This study thus analyzed
Peng Nie +7 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong +3 more
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BuildingsEnergy-efficiency retrofit assessment for old residential buildings commonly relies on energy benchmarks, but such benchmarks cannot reveal household-level disparities in energy use. This study integrates energy-consumption benchmarks with distributional-
Daibin Liu, Jinhui Ma, Mingxi Peng
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic influence of income inequality on environmental quality in Malaysia and offers evidence‐based recommendations for climate action and policy. Using annual data from 1990 to 2022, the analysis utilizes the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) framework combined with ...
Masahina Sarabdeen +3 more
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach [PDF]
Regional Studies, 2006 This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well as an "overlapping" index for the different sup ...
Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad +2 more
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On Dagum’s Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient [PDF]
To measure the contributions to inequality from population subgroups, the Gini coefficient is often decomposed into inequality within groups, inequality between groups and a residual term arising from the overlapping of income distributions from ...
William Griffiths
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