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Variational Bayesian multinomial probit regression with Gaussian process priors [PDF]
, 2005 It is well known in the statistics literature that augmenting binary and polychotomous response models with Gaussian latent variables enables exact Bayesian analysis via Gibbs sampling from the parameter posterior.
Girolami, M., Rogers, S.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Least-MSE calibration procedures for corrections of measurement and misclassification errors in generalized linear models [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2012 The analyses of clinical and epidemiologic studies are often based on some kind of regression analysis, mainly linearregression and logistic models. These analyses are often affected by the fact that one or more of the predictors are measuredwith error ...
Parnchit Wattanasaruch +2 more
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The Impact of Education Level on Home Ownership: Intertemporal Comparison [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2016 With respect to the fact that housing satisfies a social need, in addition to the impact of economic factors, the social factors are alsoimportant in housing market.
Abd-ol-Rasul Ghasemi, Elham Shadabfar
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Willingness to Take COVID-19 Vaccines in Ethiopia: An Instrumental Variable Probit Approach [PDF]
, 2021 Abayomi Samuel Oyekale
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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A microeconometric analysis of factors affecting global value chain participation in Zimbabwe
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019 Using firm-level data, this study explores the microeconomic factors affecting global value chain (GVC) participation in Zimbabwe. GVCs are important as a result of the fragmentation of global production across countries.
Stein Masunda, Norman Mupaso
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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A comparison of multilevel ordinal regression models in the analysis of police force ratings
Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social StatisticsIn the literature several methods have been developed to model ordinal data while considering their natural ordering. However, this study sought to compare two possible link functions for the multilevel ordinal regression using males’ ratings of the ...
Douglas Andabati Candia +3 more
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