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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Representative Data"”.
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Measuring Wages and Inequality in South Africa Using Two Nationally Representative Data Series
… Labour Market Series (PALMS) are two data sources frequently relied upon for research into earnings in South Africa. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. Firstly, I show how NIDS data can be adjusted to account for item non-response using a bracket reweighting …
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Žaliavų kainoms įtaką darančių veiksnių analizė /
… group them and do an independent analysis of representative data sets vs Food price index Base Metal price index (from International Monetary Fund), to confirm or prove negative possibility to predict future commodity prices for selected groups. The work consists of three main parts: the …
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Automatic subtitling: A new paradigm
… the new paradigm of automatic subtitling: data, models and evaluation. First, we address the lack of representative data by compiling MuST-Cinema, a speech-to-subtitles corpus. Segmenter models trained on MuST-Cinema accurately split sentences into subtitles, and enable automatic data …
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Economic Development and Child Nutrition in Nepal
… includes three essays that use a range of data, including nationally representative data on the growth of children nutrition below five years of age, to identify potential pathways for improving child nutrition in Nepal.
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Transportation Service Provider Collaboration Problem: Potential Benefits and Solution Approaches
… are developed to provide solutions to industry representative problem instances. Finally, the benefits and insights achieved by enabling collaboration between TSPs using the TSP-CP are identified using industry representative data sets. The representative data sets were derived from actual …
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Medicare, Medicaid and the health status of individuals in Washington State, USA
… of individuals in Washington, United States. A representative data set of more than 3,000 individuals from the state of Washington was utilized to address this relationship. The findings showed that the type of insurance coverage plays an important role in explaining the health status of …
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Learning Gaussisan noise models from high-dimensional sensor data with deep neural networks
… matrix of a Gaussian measurement model, given representative data. This method is algorithm-agnostic, and therefore does not require the handcoding of representative features. Quantative results are presented, showing that improved measurement covariances on a frame-to-frame visual odometry …
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The (Non)normative Administration of Justice by the Crowd: An Adaptation and Application of Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty Framework
… models using newly collected nationally representative data show the associations between perceived injustices and support for responses of various types. The research contributes a theoretical model for understanding responses to injustices which advances the discussion about the …
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The politics of pot : marijuana use and the potential for collective action.
… and recreational purposes. Using nationally representative data from the Baylor Religion Survey, I find marijuana users are more likely to publicly protest as well as attend political rallies than those who abstain from using. These findings hold true for public protest when separating the …
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An examination of the effects of medicare part d on racial/ethnic disparities
… among Medicare seniors. Using nationally representative data on White, African-American, and Hispanic Medicare seniors from the 2002-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, this dissertation analyzes eight measures of access and utilization related to prescription medications. This …
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Field comparison of groundwater sampling methods
… these devices would yield accurate, precise, and representative data. The sampling devices included a bladder pump, a bladder pump below an inflatable packer, a bailer, the Westbay{dollar}\sp\circler{dollar} Mp System, two in situ BAT{dollar}\sp\circler{dollar} devices, and a …
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Predicting Latino adolescents' dental exam occurrence
… of dental exams. This study used nationally representative data from Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in logistic regression models to estimate what factors may contribute to the Latino adolescent participants (n = 3,525) lacking a dental exam in the past year …
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On the performance of convolutional neural networks initialized with Gabor filters.
… the parameter space given a sufficient amount of representative data. When observing a fully trained CNN, researchers have found that the pattern on the kernel filters (convolution window) of the receptive convolutional layer closely resembles the Gabor filters. Gabor filters have existed for a …
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Probabilistic data analysis with probabilistic programming
Probabilistic techniques are central to data analysis, but dierent approaches can be challenging to apply, combine, and compare. This thesis introduces composable generative population models (CGPMs), a computational abstraction that extends directed graphical models and can be used to describe and …
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Inbound container queuing optimization model for distribution centers
… optimization model are described in it. Representative data is presented and the model is used to solve which containers should be received. Finally, the efficacy of the model and a comparison to a heuristic are discussed.
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Spillover Effects Of Medicare Advantage Plans: Does The Market Penetration Of Plans Affect Hospital Care Quality?
… fee-for-service (PFFS) plans. Using nationally representative data from the 2006 to 2009 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and enrollment data from CMS, this study shows that higher Medicare Advantage plan penetrations are associated with lower readmission. Thus, I conclude that the expansion …
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"MICROFINANCE AS A DETERMINANT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH: WHO IS AT RISK?"
… Partner Violence (IPV). Using nationally representative data from the Urban Health Survey (2006), I study the association between microfinance participation and domestic violence among currently married women. The outcome variable is domestic violence, which is coded as a dummy variable, …
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The Roles of Estate Planning and Social Support in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care
… life care received. This study uses nationally representative data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate explanatory causal pathways in ACP completion and its effects on End-of-Life healthcare with a focus on Hispanics. Results from this study will help providers better understand …
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Older Relatives Raising Adolescents: the Relationship Between Age of Caregiver and Youth Delinquent Acts
… Health (AddHealth), a comprehensive and representative data base. Bivariate, baseline logistic regression and multivariate regression models were used to test whether youth in the care of grandparents and other older persons were more likely to commit violent and non-violent delinquent …
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An Experimental Comparison of Complex Objects Implementations in Big Data Systems
Many data management and analytics systems support complex objects. Dataflow platforms such as Spark and Flink allow programmers to manipulate sets consisting of objects from a host programming language, often Java. Document databases such as MongoDB make use of hierarchical interchange …
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