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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Matched data"”.
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Using Matching Methods From Both Fisher's Experimental Design and Rubin's Causal Model to Compare Between Two Medical Facilities with Extremely Skewed Number of Subjects
… sample sizes from non-experimental study. The data came from a study of rehabilitation interventions with patients diagnosed with cardiac and pulmonary issues who received treatment either in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) or in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Due to inclusion …
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The use of recursive partitioning to build a financial distress prediction for JSE listed companies
… in South Africa. This paper also makes use of a matched data sample approach and the manner in which missing data is addressed makes a valuable contribution to financial distress prediction research. Furthermore, support is found for prior literature in that financial variables are statistically …
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Pay Determinants in the Malaysian Economy: Evidence from Employee, Employer, and Employer-Employee Perspectives
… economy, owing to a lack of appropriate data. Therefore, with the availability of new datasets – worker-level dataset (WLD) and firm-level dataset (FLD) obtained from the Second Malaysian Productivity Investment Climate Survey (PICS-2), we have developed a matched-worker-firm dataset …
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Language Modeling for limited-data domains
… with limited amount of in-domain training data, enhanced system performance often relies on approaches involving model adaptation and combination. In such domains, language models are often constructed by interpolating component models trained from partially matched corpora. Instead of …
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Probing two-dimensional magnetic phenomena with diamond quantum microscopy
The demand for data storage continues to increase, driving the exploration and character- isation of novel materials for post-silicon technology. The development of high-density memory devices based on novel magnetic materials has promising aspects such as un- matched data retention and low power …
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Variation in treatment: an analysis of dental radiographs using matched patient provider data
… both the theoretical and empirical literature. A matched patient provider dataset from NHS Scotland is used to conduct an analysis of the variation in dental radiographs, in the presence of, and controlling for unobserved dentist and patient heterogeneity. The results indicate that the …
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Educationally At-risk College Students From Single-parent and Two-parent Households: an Analysis of Differences Employing Cooperative Institutional Research Program Data.
… other of students from two-parent households. Data were from CIRP 2003 College Student Survey (CSS) and its matched data from the Freshman Survey (Student Information Form - SIF). Differences examined included student inputs, involvements, outcomes, and collegiate environments. Included is …
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Suicide Mortality of Emergency Department Patients
… evaluation and disposition status can provide data for potential practice changes.</p> <p><strong>Background </strong>Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and has been since 2008. Suicide is preventable if those at risk are identified and provided with timely …
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Essays In Health Economics
… health economics. In the first essay, I use the matched data set constructed from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Consumer Finances for period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. The results indicate significant housing …
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The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract on Human Resource Practices and Employee Retention Relationship: An Employer-Employee Perspective.
… dyads returned the completed questionnaires. The data obtained were then analysed using descriptive, correlational, independent samples t-tests, and regression analysis to determine the relationship between the variables of this study. This research found that there is a positive significant …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… representative Labour Force Survey microdata linked with occupational skill measures from O*NET, I apply a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposi-tion to quantify the role of task-based skills. I find that differences in skills explain only a modest share of the gap, while differences in returns to …
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… detailed historical, census and administrative data to gain insights into the mechanisms at play when incentives for production and location decisions change. Chapter 1 asks whether financial incentives can induce inventors to innovate more. I exploit a large reduction in the patent fee in the …
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Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods for Complex Data
A variety of complex data has broadened in many research fields such as epidemiology, genomics, and analytical chemistry with the development of science, technologies, and design scheme over the past few decades. For example, in epidemiology, the matched case-crossover study design is used to …
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Estimation of physical activity using accelerometry in adult populations: Using the Sensewear Armband and the ACT24 as comparison tools for the estimation of energy expenditure and physical activity intensity by the Sojourn method
… by comparing activity patterns with parallel data from the Sensewear Armband (SWA) and ACT24. Methods: The study used data obtained through a large (ongoing) field-based evaluation of activity monitors conducted in the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Lab at Iowa State University. The …
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Essays in Environmental and Supply Chain Topics in Finance
… By assembling a novel transaction-level dataset of factoring with other credit operations for all registered firms and FIDCs, we construct a shift-share instrument for factoring financing supply based on FIDC flows. We then use a novel combination of electronic payments, trade credit, and …
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Modern Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Housing Markets
… of richer, high-dimensional, home sales data-sets, as well as spatially geocoded data, allows for the use of new econometric and computational methods to explore novel research questions. This dissertation consists of three separate research papers which aim to leverage this trend to …
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Essays on Mental Health and Behavioral Outcomes of Children and Youth
… analyses in multiple, large-scale data sets of nationally representative samples of youth population to study the impact of the laws on a number of youth mental and behavioral outcomes. Results indicate the presence of heterogeneity with respect to the impact of states’ arrest laws …
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Essays in Financial Economics and Econometrics
… cash flows. Using a shift-share instrument and matched administrative data, it finds that cheaper liquidity leads firms to rely more on permanent labor. The third essay develops a new method for distributional inference—nonparametric quantile mixture models. This framework can be applied to …