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Feature Selection by Mutual Information

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Mutual information (MI), a crucial component in statistical inference and an essential tool for data analysis, has been largely overlooked for seven decades in the statistical literature. Emerging from the analysis of data information within the realms of biological, engineering and physical sciences, essential working MI formulas have been involved ...
Philip E. Cheng   +4 more
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Język współczesnej polskiej polityki

open access: yesStylistyka, 2008
The year 1989 was both in Poland and in many other European countries, which were in the sphere of the Soviet influences, the beginning of revolutionary changes: political, economie, social and cultural ones.
Kazimierz Ożóg
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A Cosmopolitan Ghetto: The Shifting Image of Kibera Slum From ‘Flying Toilets’ to a Centre for Metropolitan Innovation

open access: yesThe Thinker, 2020
Today, slums have become prominent features of urban inequalities in developing nations. The proportion of urban residents who live in slums around the world is as follows: over half in Africa as a whole, two-thirds in Sub-Saharan Africa (UN-Habitat ...
John M. Wambui
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Informality, Frictions and Monetary Policy [PDF]

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How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary policy? To answer this question we construct a two-sector, formal-informal new Keynesian closed-economy.
Bo Yang   +3 more
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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement [PDF]

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The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations.
Kanbur, Ravi
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Informality: Sectoral Selection and Earnings in Uruguay [PDF]

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In this paper we define informal workers as those who are not contributing to the social security system. We analyse the likelihood of being informal and we estimate the differentials in earnings between sectors using both the OLS estimation and a ...
Marisa Bucheli, Rodrigo Ceni
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Feature Discovery by Information Loss

open access: yesJournal of Computers, 2009
In this paper, we propose a new approach called information loss to feature detection in competitive learning. The information loss is defined by the difference between a full network and a network without some elements. If this deletion significantly decreases the amount of information contained in a network, the elements are considered to be ...
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in Latin America and the Caribbean

open access: yesLatin American Journal of Central Banking
The pros and cons of CBDCs have been examined in numerous writings but much less research has focused on specific economies or regions. This paper attempts to fill that gap for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) economies. It first examines the views
Viviana Alfonso C   +2 more
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El perfil de la informalidad laboral en Colombia [PDF]

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We analyze the implementation process of the concept of labor informality into theColombian labor market. Taking this concept as departure point, we dissect labor market informality in Colombia, its main components and features.
Andrés Felipe García-Suaza   +2 more
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Income Distribution and the Size of the Informal Sector [PDF]

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This paper studies the role of income distribution as a determinant of the size of the informal sector in an economy by relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm has to ...
Diego Winkelried
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