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Sociological Science, 2021 During the early twentieth century, industrial-era European immigrants entered the United States with lower levels of education than the U.S. average. However, empirical research has yielded unclear and inconsistent evidence about the extent and pace of ...
Kendal Lowrey +3 more
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Genealogy, 2021 What’s your street race? If you were walking down the street what race do you think strangers would automatically assume you are based on what you look like?
Nancy López, Howard Hogan
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Multivariate Global-Local Priors for Small Area Estimation
Stats, 2022 It is now widely recognized that small area estimation (SAE) needs to be model-based. Global-local (GL) shrinkage priors for random effects are important in sparse situations where many areas’ level effects do not have a significant impact on the ...
Tamal Ghosh +3 more
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Saving the Census: Assessing Willingness to Participate in the Census
California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2021 The decennial U.S. Census is intended to generate an accurate count of the population for use in allocating seats in the House of Representatives and distributing federal funds.
Stephanie DeMora, Melissa Michelson
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Is Autonomy Possible and Is It a Good Thing?
Statistics and Public Policy, 2023 Recently, Citro et al. published an article focusing on the autonomy, or lack of same, of the 13 principle statistical agencies of the United States. The authors are to be congratulated for raising an important topic—the concept of autonomy.
Hermann Habermann +2 more
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Polygyny Amongst Muslims in the Russian Federation
International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2018 Polygynous families had been living legally in Russia in the areas inhabited by Muslims from the October Revolution to the mid-twentieth century. However, such a family model was not common among the followers of Islam.
Izabela Kończak
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 ABSTRACT Twin binaries were identified among the eclipsing binaries with δ > –30° listed in the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue. In addition to the known twin binaries in the literature, 68 new systems have been identified and photometric and spectroscopic observations were done. Colour, spectral type, temperature, ratio
Bakis, Volkan +4 more
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THE CENSORIAL MARK IN ANCIENT ROMAN MARITAL MATTERS
Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2019 This article is on the administration of the censor’s mark on Roman citizens who contracted inappropriate marriages in republican Rome. An examination of the source texts has led me to conclude that marriages contracted by members of the nobility with ...
Anna Tarwacka
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Nature, 2010 The Canadian government should rethink its decision to change the way census data are collected.
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Probability Forecast Combination via Entropy Regularized Wasserstein Distance
Entropy, 2020 We propose probability and density forecast combination methods that are defined using the entropy regularized Wasserstein distance. First, we provide a theoretical characterization of the combined density forecast based on the regularized Wasserstein ...
Ryan Cumings-Menon, Minchul Shin
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