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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Information Sets"”.
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A Strategy for Monetary Policy Using a Multiple Time-Series Model
… is to explore ways of pooling various information sets and emphasizing the use of time series models in the process. While the combination of forecasts is not new, the combination of time series models and the more traditional structural econometric models has not been thoroughly …
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A model for real-time data reputation via cyber telemetry
… monumental task of protecting national security information, advanced warfighting capabilities and the personal information entrusted by hundreds of millions of American citizens. Each federal agency has now identified High Value Assets (HVA) as defined by information sets that our adversaries …
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Information provision in rating systems and traffic systems
This thesis studies information provision in two contexts: online rating systems and traffic information systems. In the first part of the thesis, we develop a model of Bayesian learning from online reviews and investigate the conditions for asymptotic learning of the quality of a product. …
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An empirical comparison of autoregressive and rational models of price expectations
… and a general model which exploits both the information sets just described. These competing approaches are each subjected to tests for rationality and predictive accuracy. The rationality tests employed in this study are the breakpoint test suggested by Sargent and the incorporation of each …
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Distributed Approach for Peptide Identification
… identification. The Peptide Spectrum Match (PSM) information set is enormous. Hence, it is a time-consuming procedure to work on a single machine. PSMs are situated by a cross connection, a factual score, or a probability that the match between the trial and speculative is right and original. This …
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When I grow up I want to be a nurse: Exploring the effect of the television portrayal of nurses on the decision to become a nurse in New Zealand
… will be met in the future. The primary information source for this research is peer-reviewed literature from which four main themes were drawn. These themes are nursing image, motivating factors to career choice, the influence of television and nurses on television. This information is …
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Quantitative Analysis of Commodity Markets, Household Vulnerability, and Learning Outcomes
… by restrictive assumptions and limited information sets. We replace historical averages with rolling regressions and incorporate current market information through the deviation of the current basis from its historical average. To address potential non-stationarity and structural changes …
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Development of a governance framework for delivery of collaborative and security-minded BIM projects
… leading to difficultiesin sharing enough information to ensure stakeholder efficiency whilst not exposing sensitivitiesand elevating security-risk. This research aims to address these issues by: Devising a conceptualprocess and data governance framework to enable secure collaboration for …
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Reasoning and decisions in partially observable games
… decision-making framework based on the notion of information set generation. Information sets are similar to belief states. Whereas a belief state encodes a probability distribution over possible current worlds, an information set represents the set of all possible game histories that are …
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Networks, decisions, and outcomes : coordination with local information and the value of temporal data for learning influence networks
… we study how strategic agents that share local information coordinate; in the second part of the thesis, we quantify the gain of having access to temporally richer data for learning of influence networks. In the first part of the thesis, we study the role of local information channels in …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… product characteristics. We allow firms' information sets at the time they choose characteristics to potentially include other firms' product characteristics, demand and cost shocks, signals on all of these, or no information at all on them in the setting of Hansen (1982). Ex-post firms …
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Essays on international macroeconomics
… The first chapter focuses on the role of private information in the dynamics of sovereign debt yields. I propose a model of sovereign debt and default where information is incomplete: Investors receive private noisy signals about the current state of the economy, resulting in heterogeneous …