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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Preference data"”.
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Structural Equation Modeling of Binary Preference Data
… goodness of fit of Thurstonian models for binary preference data.
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Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling Model for Ordinal Preference Data
… Monte Carlo methods to represent individual preferences and threshold parameters as they relate to the influence of survey items popularity and their interrelationships. The model was used to interpret two independent data samples of ordinal consumer preference data related to purchasing …
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Incorporating stated preference data in travel demand analysis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989.
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A Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling Model for Partial Rank Preference Data
… marketing. When we look at preferential choice data, there are two components to consider: the individuals and the items. Coombs (1950; 1964) introduced the unfolding technique on preferential choice data. In 1960, Bennett and Hays went on to create a multidimensional unfolding model. Hojo …
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Joint Hedonic Travel Cost Method: Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data to Estimate Demand for Attribute Quality of Sport Fishing in Illinois
… analysis and combined revealed and stated preference data. The combination of these techniques creates a joint hedonic travel cost method that consists of using better quality data to overcome the problem of multicollinearity and appearance of negative implicit prices. The hedonic travel …
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Projections for the Selection, Training and Retention of Sub-Professionalrecreation Leaders Based on an Analysis of Personality, Interest, Aptitude, and Preference Data
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Differences in performance and preference for object-oriented vs. bit-mapped graphics interfaces
… object-oriented programming or object-oriented data bases). Experienced and novice subjects performed objectively derived benchmark tasks appropriate for two-dimensional graphics packages. Both performance and preference data were collected. Task completion time, aborted attempts, learning …
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Natural landscape scenic preference: techniques for evaluation and simulation.
… inheritance allows us to attempt to model scenic preference for natural landscapes. The ideal type of model for such predictions is the psychophysical preference model, integrating psychological responses to landscapes with objective measurements of quantitative and qualitative landscape …
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Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
… that people are observed to make, i.e., revealed preference (RP) information. From these data we can quantify the influence of particular variables in the real choice context; for example, how important is price in the decision to travel by train? There are, however, potential problems with these …
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A Simulator-Based Investigation of Visual, Auditory, and Mixed-Modality Display of Vehicle Dynamic State Information to Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators
… of dash-mounted iconic display. Subjective preference data was also obtained from participants. For both front-to-rear and side collision scenarios, auditory icons elicited significantly improved driver performance over conventional auditory warnings. Driver performance improved when …
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Inverse Constitutional AI
… feature of alignment is understanding the preference datasets that are used to finetune LLMs. Inverse Constitutional AI (ICAI) is presented as a novel interpretability framework to discover the principles underlying preference datasets. Motivated by the Constitutional AI training paradigm …
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Supporting decision analysis : a pragmatic approach
… theories; the elicitation and application of preference data; facilitation as a group decision support tool; and the development of hypothetical scenarios. The purpose of decision analysis and decision support is to improve problem solving. With a pragmatic approach in mind, two normative …
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Recommender Systems for the Conference Paper Assignment Problem
… of assignments that balances reviewer preferences with conference objectives. Issues of modeling preferences and tastes in reviewing have traditionally been studied separately from the optimization of assignments. In this thesis, we present an integrated study of both aspects. First, …
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The Role of Inherent Motivation as a Determinant of Leadership Style Preference
… plays in determining the leadership style preference of an individual was studied to identify a methodology to improve an organizational development practitioner’s ability to align leadership training with employee preferences in the for-profit business environment. A quantitative …
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Data trend mining for predictive systems design
The goal of this research is to propose a data mining based design framework that can be used to solve complex systems design problems in a timely and efficient manner, with the main focus being product family design problems. Traditional data acquisition techniques that have been employed in the …
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Modeling the choice of an airline itinerary and fare product using booking and seat availability data
… to avoid the risk of bias associated with stated preference data, we focus in this research on how to develop a model of airline passenger choice based on booking data. Previous studies based on booking data have been limited to the sole choice of an airline itinerary and did not account for …
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On the Resource Efficiency of Language Models
… faces resource challenges in two dimensions: data efficiency and model efficiency. For post-training, LLMs face data curation challenges where high-quality labeled data is scarce and expensive to obtain, and data utilization challenges where existing methods fail to optimize model performance …
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Microfinance and Mobile phones: an economic analysis of the perceptions, management and measurement of environmental risk in rural Kenya
… smallholders in Kenya. It makes use of a unique data set comprising of nearly 200,000 adoptions of a pioneering weather index insurance that was bundled with a hybrid seed product and available over several seasons. The first empirical chapter econometrically explores the role of basis risk in …
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Health economics: Policy outcomes, individual choice, and adolescent behavior
… risk reductions. Utilizing individual stated-preference data from matching surveys conducted in both Canada and the United States, I employ the Value of a Statistical Illness Profile framework to investigate differences in average willingness-to-pay (WTP) for health risk reductions across the …
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Pollution control investment decisions and policy preferences of senior managers of the Southern African fish processing industry
… decisions as well as the perceptions and preferences of managers with regard to various pollution control policy options. Descriptive statistics such as the modal class were used to summarize the distribution of opinions and viewpoints within the research population. Rank ordered …
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