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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
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A sparse multinomial probit model for classification
, 2011 A recent development in penalized probit modelling using a hierarchical Bayesian approach has led to a sparse binomial (two-class) probit classifier that can be trained via an EM algorithm.
Ding, Y., Harrison, R.F.
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Clarify: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results
Journal of Statistical Software, 2003 Clarify is a program that uses Monte Carlo simulation to convert the raw output of statistical procedures into results that are of direct interest to researchers, without changing statistical assumptions or requiring new statistical models.
Michael Tomz +2 more
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From tetrachoric to kappa: How to assess reliability on binary scales
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Reliability is crucial in psychometrics, reflecting the extent to which a measurement instrument can discriminate between individuals or items. While classical test theory and intraclass correlation coefficients are well‐established for quantitative scales, estimating reliability for binary outcomes presents unique challenges due to their ...
Sophie Vanbelle
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When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multi-Party Elections [PDF]
, 1996 Theory: The spatial model of elections can better be represented by using conditional logit than by multinomial logit. The spatial model, and random utility models in general, suffer from a failure to adequately consider the substitutability of ...
Alvarez, R. Michael, Nagler, Jonathan
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Estudios Gerenciales, 2013 El objetivo de este artículo es identificar determinantes que llevan a los individuos a la toma de la decisión de ser empresarios en Medellín Área Metropolitana en 2009.
Sebastian Aparicio +2 more
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Innovation investment decisions: are post(transition) economies different from the rest of the EU? [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2017 The slow progress of innovation in transition economies is not related just to firms’ decision to invest in innovation activities. Rather, it is worth distinguishing between their decision to increase investment, reduce it, keep their investments at the ...
Ljiljana BOZIĆ, Valerija BOTRIĆ
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British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Hidden Markov diagnostic classification models capture how students' cognitive attributes evolve over time. This paper introduces a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for diagnostic classification models that jointly estimates time‐varying Q matrices, latent attributes, item parameters, attribute class proportions and transition ...
Chen‐Wei Liu
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Data in Brief, 2020 The data set contains the data of variables, such as indicators of forms or host markets of the Chinese listed firms, pre-IPO or listing firm characteristics and post-IPO or listing stock returns. These variables can be used to estimate the probabilities
Hong Li
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Financial inclusion and households’ choice of solid waste disposal in Ghana
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background As the amount of solid waste generated by households in Ghana continues to grow, policy makers are preoccupied with finding better means of managing these solid wastes.
Mustapha Immurana +3 more
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