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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Proximity measure"”.
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Psychometric Methods for Diagnostic Assessment and Dimensionality Representation
… The multidimensional ability composite best measured (in terms of information) for an item is sometimes regarded as the measurement direction of the item. We demonstrate how a directional representation of an item can be reconstructed on the basis of the item's pattern of conditional …
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The Diver's Distance
… improvement. In this thesis, we propose a new proximity measure called the diver's distance which is defined based on concepts in graph theory. We then theoretically study the diver's distance and its properties. From the theoretical results, we develop an algorithm (ddVAT) to efficiently …
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Two Studies on Childhood Obesity: Effect of Obesity on Academic Achievement and Effect of Food Store Access on Diet Quality
… of young children. Binary and index diet quality measures are developed and proximity and density of food store access measures are computed at the census block level. In general, both proximity and density measures do not have any significant marginal effects on children's diet quality in the …
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Urban spatial structure, housing markets, and resilience to natural hazards
… on the co-location hypothesis by devising a proximity measure and controlling for a set of other urban form measures. Multiple regression analysis revealed that job-worker proximity leads to shorter commuting time. In addition, results from subareas suggested that the impact of job-worker …
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Three essays in Japanese housing market
… of a site; and (3) the higher the ranking of proximity to a site, the greater the impact may be. In this model, a simple and interpretable proximity measure is constructed, representing the aggregate effect of surrounding sites. An empirical application is provided by using rental housing data …