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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR)"”.
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Essays on the Effectiveness of Public School Spending and Simultaneous Equation Quantile Regression
The final essay suggests a robust alternative to Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) for two equations. This simultaneous equation median regression estimator is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. Simulation results support the conjecture that this estimator is unbiased, Normally …
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Modeling the biomass partitioning of loblolly pine grown in a miniature-scale plantation
… of biomass in aboveground components.Some measures of partitioning tradeoffs (such as root: shoot ratio) showed a significant positive slope when regressed against trees per hectare. Systems of linear equations were developed based on tree measurements and age, and additivity was specified. By …
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Equity market reaction to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) corporate disclosure: executive compensation
Corporate disclosure is crucial for corporate governance as it reduces information asymmetry, misalignment of investors’ interests, and other agency costs. Therefore, the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted various disclosure regulations to provide investors and other stakeholders …
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The effect of price, advertising, and income on consumer demand: an almost ideal demand system investigation
… share system of equations is estimated using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) estimation procedure to allow for dependence among error terms and cross-equation coefficients. Theoretically, this research tests the validity of the well established consumer demand theory. It provides an …
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Three Essays on Consumer Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Economic Analysis of the Influence of Nutrition Information and Knowledge on Food Purchasing Behavior and the Impacts of Primary Care Givers Parenting on Childhood Obesity
… (BMI). However, the estimates from iterated seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) and semi-parametric polynomial estimation indicate that parents' BMI significantly influence children's BMI. Interestingly, physical activity appears to have weak correlation with children's BMI.
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Health management of adult hypertension in the United States: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
… diagnosis and the nutrient intake using the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) method. The data came from the 2007-2008, 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 cross-sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which is a sample of the civilian, non-institutionalized adult …
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Maximum-likelihood-based confidence regions and hypothesis tests for selected statistical models.
… types of statistical models. The models are a seemingly unrelated regression model, a bivariate Poisson regression model, and a model of two inversely-related Poisson rate parameters with misclassified data. The seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model promotes more efficient estimation as …
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Performance and JSE listing of selected South African hospital operators
… selected proxies for the hospital performance measured were: Total Annual Revenue, Revenue per Bed per Day, Total Number of Hospital Beds, and EBITDA margin while controlling for Healthcare Inflation and Medically Insured Population, respectively. The specified regression equation was expanded to …
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Beyond Firm Boundaries: Exploring The Interdependence Between Supply Chain Partners
… dataset of 2861 buyer-supplier dyads and Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), we jointly evaluate the extent to which buyer`s bargaining power is simultaneously associated with improved buyer performance and diminished supplier performance. We find that buyer`s bargaining power is …
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Essays on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy
… depreciation and a temporary current account surplus, is outlined. After discussing some extensions of the basic model and verifying the lack of robustness of the main theoretical predictions to the introduction of alternative assumptions, the chapter provides an empirical investigation of the …
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Essays on aviation, regional economic development, and migration
… role in local and regional development measured via both traditional employment and non-traditional business variables. Furthermore, comparison of the Denver MSA to the wider state illustrates differences associated to the distance to the hub city. Chapter 2, titled as "Inter-fuel …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Food Price Shocks: Micro-econometric Evidence from Uganda
… (GARCH), the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) models. I find evidence that both unconditional and conditional price volatilities have significantly increased since January 2008 for most commodities, period of turmoil in the global food markets. The GARCH (1, …