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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Logit Regression Model"”.
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Partisanship and Judicial Decision Making in U.S. Courts of Appeal
… judges. I utilize both cross tabulations and a Logit regression model to determine the likelihood appellate judges will vote for their own party and against the opposition.
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Investigating determinants of access to formal credit - South African women entrepreneurs in the informal sector
… formal credit by women in the informal sector. A logit regression model is employed as an estimation technique, to empirically test the relationship between individual characteristics and access to formal credit. The study uses data from the 2016 FinScope National Survey to identify which of these …
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Factors associated with delay in starting anti-retroviral treatment among confirmed HIV positive individuals in state health facilities in Northern Namibia
… one and two of the study. The multivariate (LOGIT) regression model was used to ascertain factors behind the delay in starting the ART among confirmed HIV+ individuals. The study’s results indicated that most confirmed HIV+ individuals opted for an early ART start, whereby the age, facility, …
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The factors that create a successful mobile money ecosystem: Kenya vs Nigeria
… services in Kenya and Nigeria. Using various models such as; the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Unified Technology Acceptance User Theory (UTAUT), Innovation Diffusion Process and demographic variables (age, sex, education level, access bank account, ownership of mobile phone, MM …
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The Impact of Boards’ Ownership Structure on Voluntary and Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility
… issues. Building on the existing literature, a model that relates boards’ ownership structure (executive directors’ ownership, non-executive directors’ ownership and concentrated ownership) to voluntary and mandatory CSR via Corporate Governance (CG) and firm characteristics control variables …
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Unlocking public and private finance for financial inclusion for individuals at the bottom of the pyramid in Mbare, Zimbabwe
… contributed to this gap. We employed the logit regression method to quantify the extent of financial inclusion and understand the interplay of various factors influencing it. These factors included financial education, the availability of affordable financial services, branchless banking, …
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An economic and institutional analysis of community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
… successful communities that use community-based' models, such as wildlife conservancies, might provide important insights for policy makers and development practitioners. These issues are explored in three substantial papers included in this thesis. The thesis consists of five chapters starting …
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Health and Poverty: The Issue of Health Inequalities in Ethiopia
… years 2000-2005. In the multivariate analysis a logit regression model was used to estimates inequalities in infant and under-five years¿ child survival, and inequalities in access to and utilisation of child health services. In Ethiopia, little was known about inequalities in IMR and U5MR, and …
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Zinc adequacy in the UK population
… research. The validity of two recently published models to estimate Zn absorption in the UK population was investigated. Although there was evidence to support validity of the most recently developed mathematical model, it proved unable to estimate proportion of Zn absorption, using parameters for …
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Modeling land-cover change in the Amazon using historical pathways of land cover change and Markov chains. A case study of Rondõnia, Brazil
… used assumptions in predictive stochastic models applied to small farmers' deforestation decisions. This study uses the following data: household surveys, maps, satellite images and their land cover classification at the pixel level, and pathways of past land cover change for each farm. …
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Urban Households' Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Ordered Logit Regression Model was used to examine the contributions of factors to HVI and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was employed in weight assignments. Pearson‘s Correlation Coefficient was used to measure the strength of association that exists …
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Three essays on the effects of health policy on health care financing, demand, and provision
… individual fixed-effects strategy and the probit model with the Mundlak device estimation. Different from previous studies’ findings that there is no evidence that the scheme has reduced out-of-pocket spending, the result of this research shows that the NCMS has a significant effect on relieving …
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Maternal and child health outcomes in relation to accessibility, spatial distribution, inequality and free maternal care in Kenya
… between the 2003 and 2014 surveys. Secondly, a logit regression model is used to examine the factors that determine the utilization of maternal health care when supply-side factors are controlled for. As expected, utilization of maternal health care is found to increase with increases in …
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El sector fundacional en España : la información económico-financiera. Un modelo para evaluar la eficiencia en el logro de sus fines.
… tenido que producirse hasta una configuración de modelo de contabilidad adecuados a la realidad económica de este tipo de organizaciones se ha alcanzado. Sin embargo, esta información no es suficiente si el objetivo es descubrir el alcance de su actuación en la gestión de recursos para el …