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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Potential Outcomes"”.
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Estimating bounds for nonidentifiale parameters using potential outcomes
… reformulates Coffey et al. (2005) using the potential outcomes frame work which help to clarify nonestimable quantities, in particular, tighten bounds for nonestimable correlation parameter and a causal parameter in a linear model under certain assumptions. Also, the positive definiteness …
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Examining the Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Outcomes of Stress Bragging
… stress bragging to achieve desirable workplace outcomes through IM tactics. Despite its prevalence, the interplay between stress bragging and workplace outcomes remains underexplored. This research addresses this gap by examining the dualistic impacts of stress bragging—beneficial outcomes for …
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Count-Regression-Based Empirical Causal Analysis from a Potential Outcomes Perspective: Accounting for Boundedness, Discreteness, Dispersion and Unobservable Confounding
… (FO-2SRI) methods, in the context of the general potential outcomes framework, that accommodate nonlinearities due to the intrinsic characteristics of count-valued outcomes such as boundedness (outcome nonnegative), discreteness (outcome has countable support) and dispersion (conditional variance …
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Causal Inference for Social and Engineering Systems
… In particular, we represent the various potential outcomes (i.e., counterfactuals) of interest through an order-3 tensor. The key theoretical results presented are: (i) Formal identification results establishing under what missingness patterns, latent confounding, and structure on the …
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Causal Inference Beyond Estimating Average Treatment Effects
… For example, instead of estimating the mean of potential outcomes in a group, we may want to estimate the distribution of the potential outcomes. Understanding the distribution implies understanding the mean, but not vice versa. Therefore, more sophisticated causal inference can be made from the …
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Essays in econometrics
… Under binary treatment and finite support of the potential outcomes, we introduce a transition matrix representation of the potential outcome pair. We show that it can be used to characterize the identified region of the joint distribution for the potential outcomes, which in turn generates the …
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Experiences in a multi-sport parasport program: the female adolescent perspective
… participants’ experiences, as well as some potential outcomes of participation. Some key aspects of the program that were addressed by participants included: its para-specific design, the program’s coaches, and the new opportunities for sport engagement that participants were afforded. The …
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Transcranial direct current stimulation in Alzheimer's disease
… tDCS stimulation AD patients to predict patient outcomes over a decade long period. Secondly, it introduces scientific evidence of long-term improvement in AD with tDCS using brain region volume and MMSE score as key metrics. Thirdly, it calculates an optimal tDCS regimen for improvement in …
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Semiparametric instrumental variable methods for causal response models
… on the cumulative distribution functions of the potential outcomes with and without the treatment.
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Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
… involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use and building standards in their jurisdiction. This thesis uses a scenario planning approach to explore …
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Local action for the global environment : municipal government participation in a voluntary climate protection program
… barriers and drivers of implementation, and potential outcomes of municipal CCP implementation, through case studies of six communities in New England and Eastern Canada, at different implementation levels of the CCP program. Three actors from each case were interviewed and their responses …
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University Comprehensive Internationalization (CI): Faculty Meaning-Making, Motivations, and Perceptions for Engaging Globally
… and professional values, and perceptions of potential outcomes of CI engagement. The analysis highlights and explores these factors and their connections to the international outlook ranking for interviewees’ institutions.
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… a literature gap regarding the analysis of the potential outcomes of households under displacement conditions. This study takes advantage of data purchased from InfoUSA on address changes of residents in Champaign County to be able to identify residential mobility from one period to another. …
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Utilizing Knowledge Transfer to Promote Management of Countervailing Risks in Value Stream Analysis
… these modifications need to account for potential outcomes and risks when streamlining processes. An association of knowledge transfer and experience to the identification and handling of these countervailing or alternative risks when performing Lean Thinking value stream analysis is …
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Policy Bargaining and Incompatibilities in Civil Wars: Intervention, Power-Sharing, and Preferences
… Those theories are tested by using various potential outcomes as measures of conflict terminations in civil wars over government.
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DeepBall: Modeling expectation and uncertainty in baseball with recurrent neural networks
… the maximum-likelihood distribution over potential outcomes for each player. Due to the positive results, we believe that in the future, DeepBall can be beneficial to both teams and fans in modeling expectation and uncertainty. Finally, we discuss potential extensions to the model and …
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A Study of Human Decision-Making in Economic Games
… on agent behavior. In Chapter III I explore the potential outcomes of blended payment structures in a dual-principal agent environment. I draw from the previously conducted experimental study in Chapter II and simulate agent behavior induced by blended payment mechanisms. In Chapter IV, I move …
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Topics in conditional causal inference
… In Chapter 1, we first review the classical potential outcomes framework and some basic causal inference methods relevant to this thesis, then provide a summary of the problems and methods studied in the following chapters. In Chapter 2, we consider testing causal effects in complex …
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Implementation of a communication skills module at the University of Washington School of Dentistry: pilot study
… their use for proving competency and as potential outcomes measurement tools. In addition, students found that portraying the “patient” during role-playing was effective in gaining the patient’s perspective. This pilot study used a one-session communications module; however, a more …
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Decision analysis for geothermal energy
… benefits of geothermal projects with uncertain outcomes. In particular. this project seeks to adapt a set of existing tools, the Decision Aids for Tunnelling, to the context of well-drilling, and make them suitable for use as a core software set around which additional software models can be …
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