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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Random Coefficients"”.
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Panel data models with nonadditive unobserved heterogeneity : estimation and inference
… in linear and nonlinear panel data models with random coefficients and endogenous regressors. The quantities of interest - means, variances, and other moments of the random coefficients - are estimated by cross sectional sample moments of GMM estimators applied separately to the time series of …
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Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Kalman Filter Model
… is one where the transition equation allows the coefficients of a regression equation to follow an autoregressive-moving average process. Thus the KFM is a generalization of the random coefficients model.
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Approximation of random/stochastic partial differential equations
… of partial differential equations (PDEs) with randomness or stochasticity. We focus on three rather different problems: a study of random fields on spherical shells, and its applications to PDE problems; quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for a class of PDEs with random coefficients; and a …
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Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations with Random, Large Potential
… differential equations with highly oscillatory, random coefficients describe many applications in applied science and engineering such as porous media and composite materials. Homogenization of PDE states that the solution of the initial model converges to the solution to a macro model, which is …
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Three essays on nonlinear panel data models and quantile regression analysis
… An important example of these models is a random coefficients linear model with endogenous regressors. The third chapter (co-authored with Joshua Angrist and Victor Chernozhukov) studies the interpretation of quantile regression estimators when the linear model for the underlying …
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Corrector Theory in Random Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations
… systematically a theory for the correctors in random homogenization of partial differential equations with highly oscillatory coefficients, which arise naturally in many areas of natural sciences and engineering. This corrector theory is of great practical importance in many applications when …
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A Random Coefficient Analysis of the United States Gasoline Market From 1960-1995
This study uses a random coefficient estimation procedure to analyze the U.S. gasoline market from 1960-1995 with three main objectives: (1) provide an empirical methodology that can estimate a gasoline demand function capable of performing well in prediction; (2) evaluate the elasticities of the …
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Accuracy bounds for normal-incidence acoustic structure estimation
… is computed for the estimation of unknown, nonrandom reflection coefficients in a medium containing only discrete reflectors; special attention is given to the one- and two-reflector situations. The bound's ability to predict estimator performance is demonstrated, as is the inadequacy of a …
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Essays On Peer Effects And Network Econometrics
… model of network formation, and a flexible random coefficient model on the outcome, can motivate high-level unconfoundedness and rank conditions to identify average treatment effects and spillovers effects. I show that a novel finite-dimensional statistic (the network propensity score) can …
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Three essays on econometrics
… inference in nonlinear panel data models with random coefficients and endogenous regressors. The quantities of interest are estimated by cross sectional sample moments of generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators applied separately to the time series of each individual. To deal with the …
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Assessing Student Perceptions of High School Science Classroom Environments: A Validation Study
… by scaling the data to the Multidimensional Random Coefficients Multinomial Logit (Rasch) Model exhibited suitable rating scale structure, item quality, and reliability of separation. Analyses by academic grouping revealed that students in high achieving courses had a more favorable …
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Does the Relative Price of Non-Traded Goods Contribute to the Short-Term Volatility in the U.S./Canada Real Exchange Rate? A Stochastic Coefficient Estimation Approach
This study uses a random coefficient estimation procedure to test the hypothesis that much of the volatility in the U.S./Canada real exchange rate over the time period 1971 through 1999 is due to the relative price of non-traded goods to traded goods. The model specification used in this study …
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Essays on Dynamic Demand Estimation
… chapter resolves this issue by incorporating random coefficient Logit models into a dynamic demand framework and hence allows for realistic demand substitution patterns. It builds on Hendel and Nevo's 2006 Econometrica paper, where the authors introduce a model of dynamic demand that flexibly …
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The Effect of Wearing Mouthguards on VO2, Ventilation, and Perceived Exertion at Two Different Exercise Intensities
… were completed within a 2-week period using a randomized 6x6 balanced Latin square design. <br> <strong><em>Subjects:</strong></em> Twenty-four subjects (age = 20.41 ± 1.99) who were members of the Brigham Young University lacrosse team participated in this study. …
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Evaluation of switchgrass, M. x giganteus, and sorghum as biomass crops: effects of environment and field management practices
… using descriptive statistics, and using a random coefficients model. Switchgrass has been researched extensively in North America as a biomass crop and data reported since the 1990’s reveal large variability in dry biomass yields which are related to multiple environment and field …
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Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chains: Consumer Demand and Company Sourcing Practices
… US. Both studies use discrete choice models with random coefficients to characterize consumer demand in terms of consumers’ willingness-to-pay, price sensitivity, and substitution behavior. The first study compares the demand for Fair Trade, organic, and dual-label Fair Trade and organic coffees, …
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Essays in the economics of public housing policy
… of the distribution of individual-level random coefficients for costs of moving factors among defined mobility-disadvantaged groups is analyzed. In the second and third chapters, I present an interim evaluation of the MTW self-sufficiency program on participants’ psychological well-being …
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Computer-Administered Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) and Psychiatric Screening in Outpatient Pain Patients: Effect of a Point-of-Care Biopsychosocial Patient Health Report on Treatment Outcomes
… therapist). A total of 69 pain patients were randomly assigned to one of two protocol-based PRO feedback intervention groups (separate feedback to both patients and providers [Dual Feedback]; Provider-Only Feedback) or a non-intervention group (Chart-Review Only). Assessments were completed …
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Estimation of Variation For High-throughput Molecular Biological Experiments With Small Sample Size
<p><strong>Motivation:</strong> In the quantification of molecular components, a large variation can affect and even potentially mislead the biological conclusions. Meanwhile, the high-throughput experiments often involve a small number of samples due to the limitation of cost and time. In such …