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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Summary Index"”.
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The Effects of Child Sponsorship on younger Sibling Confidence
… regards to the child’s confidence. Using the summary index method to create indices from the elements quantified in the child’s drawings and an instrumental variable OLS with clustered standard errors, children from both families with sponsored children and families with waitlisted children …
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Cladistic Analysis of the Paleozoic Bryozoan Families Monticuliporidae and Mesotrypidae
… PAUP produced the shortest trees, with better summary index values and low homoplasy. Phenetic results varied, depending largely on the similarity measures used. Cladistic analysis produced five tree topologies, the most parsimonious of which consisted of a monophyletic crown group, …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
… model is utilized. Moreover, to create an index for measuring risk preferences and religiosity, both principal component analysis and summary index are used. Theories behind Islamic microfinance inherently suggest that it will appeal to risk-averse and more religious individuals. Contrary …
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Investigating the United States’ Racial Structure through the Evaluation of Residential Distribution
… has been limited because, I argue, segregation indexes are based on particular racial structures, none of which effectively capture multiple tiered hierarchies. Thus, this paper investigates the contemporary racial structure manifested through residential distribution by comparing computer …
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Unplanned hospitalisations, functional ability, and quality of life of enrolled older primary care patients: Associations with general practitioner and practice characteristics in New Zealand and the Netherlands
… Restriction Scale (GARS, range 18-72), and EQ-5D summary index (Dutch tariff range -0.38-1.00). Results. Significant differences in rates of unplanned admissions were not observed in New Zealand practices, but participants seen by female GPs had lower admission rates when the analysis was …
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UNRAVELING THE EFFECTS OF NEUROREHABILITATION IN PERSONS WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: RECOVERY VERSUS COMPENSATION
… gap arises from the lack of a standardized index to quantify motor performance quality, which restricts the exploration of relationships among the functional, performance, and neural levels of recovery and compensation. Thus, the second study established a summary index for assessing gait …
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The economic burden, patients' well-being, and social determinants related to diabetes in South Africa
… were meticulously converted into a unified summary index score employing the UK time trade-off value set. HRQoL was assessed using the ordinal logistic regression. Lastly, the fourth objective explored the influence of SDoH on people with diabetes. Self-care management and adherence to …