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Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Response Models in R

Journal of Statistical Software, 2007
Item response theory (IRT) models are a class of statistical models used by researchers to describe the response behaviors of individuals to a set of categorically scored items.
Matthew S. Johnson
doaj  

Agency credit rating absence and internal credit risk assessment in peer-to-Peer lending

Cogent Business & Management
This study examines whether the absence of agency credit ratings on business loan applications impacts their internal credit risk rating at Funding Societies, Malaysia’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform that specializes in lending to Small and
Joshua Abraham Kizige, Lan Thi Phuong Nguyen, Jing Hui Kwan, Wisdom Kalabeke   +3 more
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green M&A, Green Finance, and Corporate Market Value Enhancement: A Signaling Game-Theoretic and Empirical Analysis

Systems
The low-carbon transition is reshaping firms’ strategic behavior and financial resource allocation, yet the mechanisms linking green mergers and acquisitions (green M&A), green credit, and market value remain insufficiently understood.
Xi Chen, Chunai Ma, Wanting Wu, Fuying Hao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Production inventory model for two-level trade credit financing under the effect of preservation technology and learning in supply chain

Cogent Engineering, 2015
The present study investigated the inventory model for a retailer under two levels of trade credit to reflect the supply chain management. Supplier offers trade credit period of M to the retailer while in turn retailer provides a trade credit period of N
Sunil Kumar, Nidhi Handa, S.R. Singh, Dharmendra Yadav   +3 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

The Performance of the Semigeneralized Partial Credit Model for Handling Item-Level Missingness. [PDF]

Educ Psychol Meas, 2020
Zhou S, Huggins-Manley AC.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Explains Racial Differences in Farm Succession Planning? Evidence From Decomposition and Counterfactual Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa, Armine Poghosyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of Computer-Based Chemical Five-Tier Diagnostic Test Instruments: A Generalized Partial Credit Model

Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science
This study focuses on developing a five-tier chemical diagnostic test based on a computer-based test with 11 assessment categories with an assessment score from 0 to 10.
Achmad Rante Suparman, Eli Rohaeti, Sri Wening   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source