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Hedge fund return predictability; To combine forecasts or combine information? [PDF]

, 2014
While the majority of the predictability literature has been devoted to the predictability of traditional asset classes, the literature on the predictability of hedge fund returns is quite scanty. We focus on assessing the out-of-sample predictability of
Ackermann, Agarwal, Agarwal, Agarwal, Aggarwal, Aiolfi, Alexander, Amenc, Ang, Avramov, Avramov, Bai, Bali, Bali, Bali, Bali, Bali, Bates, Berk, Billio, Breiman, Bussiere, Campbell, Campbell, Cao, Chan, Chen, Clark, Della Corte, Della Corte, Ekaterini Panopoulou, Fleming, Friedman, Fung, Fung, Fung, Fung, Fung, Ghosh, Goyal, Greyserman, Hamza, Harlow, Harlow, Harris, Hendry, Hoerl, Huang, Inoue, Jagannathan, Jore, Kosowski, Krokhmal, Liang, Liang, Markowitz, Marquering, Meligkotsidou, Meligkotsidou, Mitchell, Olmo, Pastor, Patton, Petkova, Rapach, Rapach, Rockafellar, Rockafellar, Sortino, Spyridon Vrontos, Stock, Stock, Sun, Tibshirani, Timmermann, Titman, Vassalou, Vrontos, Wachter, Wegener, West, Zou, Zou, Zou   +83 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust logistic regression for insurance risk classification [PDF]

, 2001
Risk classification is an important part of the actuarial process in Insurance companies. It allows for the underwriting of the best risks, through an appropriate choice of classification variables, and helps set fair premiums in rate-making.
Flores, Esteban, Garrido, José
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Intravitreal GD2‐Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor T‐Cell Therapy for Refractory Retinoblastoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective treatments for advanced, treatment‐resistant retinoblastoma (RB) remain limited. GD2‐specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells show potent antitumor activity with minimal toxicity but have not previously been evaluated in RB.
Subongkoch Subhadhirasakul, Jatuporn Sujjitjoon, Pa‐thai Yenchitsomanus, Kridtin Jarutatsanangkoon, Ng Wei Loon, Kleebsabai Sanpakit, Jassada Buaboonnam, Chayamon Takpradit, Pornpimon Yuti, Nunghathai Sawasdee, Piriya Luangwattananun, Siripakorn Sangkitporn, Arnan Limmahachai, La‐ongsri Atchaneeyasakul   +13 more
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Prior Use of Durable Medical Equipment as a Risk Adjuster for Health-Based Capitation

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2010
This paper examines a new risk adjuster for capitation payments to Dutch health plans, based on the prior use of durable medical equipment (DME). The essence is to classify users of DME in a previous year into clinically homogeneous classes and to apply ...
Richard C. van Kleef, René C. J. A. van Vliet   +1 more
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A new trajectory approach for investigating the association between an environmental or occupational exposure over lifetime and the risk of chronic disease: Application to smoking, asbestos, and lung cancer.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Quantifying the association between lifetime exposures and the risk of developing a chronic disease is a recurrent challenge in epidemiology. Individual exposure trajectories are often heterogeneous and studying their associations with the risk of ...
Emilie Lévêque, Aude Lacourt, Viviane Philipps, Danièle Luce, Pascal Guénel, Isabelle Stücker, Cécile Proust-Lima, Karen Leffondré   +7 more
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
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CDOs and systematic risk : why bond ratings are inadequate [PDF]

, 2009
This paper analyzes the risk properties of typical asset-backed securities (ABS), like CDOs or MBS, relying on a model with both macroeconomic and idiosyncratic components.
Krahnen, Jan Pieter, Wilde, Christian
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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MODEL PEMETAAN RISIKO KEKERINGAN DI KABUPATEN BIMA, NUSA TENGGARA BARAT

Jurnal Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota, 2019
Drought in Bima regency is an annual phenomenon that always happens every year and its handling is still short-term. Therefore, there needs to be a monitoring and analysis of the drought risk factors so the drought risk mapping can be conducted to plan ...
Nuraimmatul Faizah, Imam Buchori
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