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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Predictive Ability"”.
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The incremental predictive ability of individual financial analysts
"Financial analysts are among the most influential group of users of financial accounting information. Because the FASB has advocated usefulness as the ""overriding criterion"" (FASB, 1980, p.26) to judge accounting choices, accountants have a stake in understanding this important group of …
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Genotype by environment model predictive ability in miscanthus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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An Empirical Investigation of the Predictive Ability of Selected Accounting Risk Measures
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Predictive ability of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in diagnosing and evaluating Parkinson's disease
… that uses machine learning or directly tests predictive value. The goal of this thesis was to determine whether or not cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker data could predict incidence of Parkinson's with a high degree of accuracy and differentiate between patients with varying levels of …
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PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF A 3D BODY SCANNING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR METABOLIC HEALTH RISK
… to healthcare including access, cost, and availability, highlighting the need for simple, efficient, and accessible cardiometabolic health risk screening. Given the surge in smartphone ownership over the last decade, this study sought to determine the predictive ability of a mobile 3D-optical …
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Determining the Predictive Ability of Rural-Urban Migration for Health Indicators in China
… and grip strength, albeit in models with low predictive ability. However, the length of time since a person migrated is not a significant predictor of health indicators.</p>
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The predictive ability of discriminant analysis to identify takeover targets for portfolio selection
… a portfolio selection setting to determine its ability to identify portfolios capable of performance superior to that of the market. The sample in the model building phase is composed of seventy-one firms acquired during the years of 1976 and 1977. Another seventy-one firms were drawn randomly …
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Predictive ability of music aptitude and improvisation readiness on the quality of student improvisations
Thesis (M.Mus.)--Michigan State University. Department of Music Education, 2005
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The Predictive Ability of Specific Questions Related to Symptoms in the Diagnosis of Endodontic Disease
The purpose of this study was to test the predictive ability of specific questions in diagnosis of pulpal and periradicular disease in a dental school population. 210 patients were recruited to fill out a questionnaire, and undergo a clinical examination for pulpal and/or periradicular disease.The …
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The level of service inventory and female offenders : addressing issues of reliability and predictive ability
… (Blanchette & Brown, 2006). Although its reliability and predictive validity has been demonstrated across many field settings and offender populations, few studies (e.g., Rettinger, 1998) have addressed the question of predictive validity on a sufficiently large sample of female offenders to …
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Does being unaware predict being unskilled? Analyzing the predictive ability of the Metacognition Awareness Inventory
… using a tool designed to assess metacognitive ability. Participants first completed a metacognition scale designed to assess learning strategies – the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI). Next, the participants were administered a 29-minute lecture followed by a brief exam at the end of the …
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The Effect of IFRS Adoption on the Predictive Ability of Aggregate Accruals for Economic Growth
… did not. I do not find a similar change in the predictive ability of aggregate cash flows following IFRS adoption. IFRS adoption also enables aggregate accruals to better predict a component of GDP (corporate profits) and factors related to GDP change (change in corporate investment and …
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The Incremental Predictive Ability of General Price Level Adjusted Accounting Numbers for Downward Bond Rating Changes
… to deal with the problems caused by the instability in the purchasing power of the dollar. FASB 33 recommended General Price Level adjustment of accounting numbers as one of two alternatives to deal with the problem of changing price levels. This study is an attempt to determine the increased …
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Correlations and Predictive Ability of Oral Reading Fluency and the Wilson Reading System on End of Year Assessments
To insure academic success for students with learning disabilities, it is critical that educators are able to make timely and effective instructional decisions. The focus of this study was to evaluate the relationship and effectiveness of two different progress monitoring tools, a measure of oral …
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Analysis of the predictive ability and profitability of an analytically derived trading algorithm in the intra-day spot foreign exchange market
This paper examines the predictive power and profitability of an analytically derived, technical trading algorithm in the intraday spot foreign exchange market, using over nine years of hourly data. This trading rule, the reservation price policy (RPP), stems from the computer science literature …
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A Comparative Study of the Time-Series Behavior and Predictive Ability of Historical Cost Earnings and General Purchasing Power Adjusted Earnings: An Empirical Investigation
… concerning the time-series properties and predictive ability of accounting numbers are of considerable importance for various areas of research. However, there exists no descriptive evidence in relation to the underlying time-series behavior and predictive ability of general purchasing …
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The role of genomic selection and advanced statistical modeling in domesticating perennial sorghum
… architecture (using multi-kernel) into GP predictive ability? Second, can accounting for Genotype × Environment (GxE) interactions, including the use of environmental covariates (ECs), improve predictive ability? We found that partitioning single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) based on a …
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