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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"Weighted Average"”.
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The correlation between market fundamentals and apartment REIT performance
… Rate) and market fundamentals (as measured by weighted average rent growth, weighted average employment growth, weighted average stock growth and weighted average excess demand). The objective of this paper is to explain the variance in historical apartment REIT performance based on historical …
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Bounds on the Redundancy of Noiseless Source Coding
… is the difference between the exponentially weighted average codeword length,
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Exposure Assessment to Estimate the Population Exposed to Low Air Quality from Wildfires in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
… and 2023 were aggregated to daily values. The weighted average daily PM2.5 concentrations were estimated using the indirect method of Thiessen polygons to obtain spatial coverage of the stations. Person-days of exposure to weighted average daily PM2.5 concentrations above the World Health …
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Recommender System for Audio Recordings
… using different data filtering methods – named weighted-average, K-nearest neighbors, and item-based – which are based on collaborative filtering techniques, which work by recording user preferences on items and by anticipating the future likes and dislikes of users by comparing the records, for …
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A Marine Corps Enlisted inventory projection model using years of service and pay grade
… demotion rates are based on either a straight average, one specific fiscal year, a two year weighted average, or a three year weighted average. This model is an easy-to-use tool with flexibility to perform quick calculations of several scenarios for analysis, ultimately providing efficiency and …
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Integrating Contemporary Attitude Theory With the Concept of Commitment (Involvement, Smoking)
… investigated: the Fishbein attitude model, a weighted-average model, and the Vector model.
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A Study of Reject Inference Techniques
… of all applicants is modeled as a weighted average of the PDFs of the acceptedpopulation and the rejected population. The unknown parameters in this model will thenbe the mixing parameters of this weighted average. To estimate these parameters, we usethe Expectation-Maximization …
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Fibre Length Distribution and Dispersion during the Injection Moulding Process: An experimental study evaluating fibre length attrition and dispersion during processing of long glass fibre reinforced polymer composites in injection moulding including an evaluation of long glass fibre measurement techniques
… along the screw showed a drastic decrease in weighted average glass fibre length from initial pellet form to the end of the metering zone with sudden transitions to lower weighted average values seen at the beginning of the feeding zone and along the compression zone. Fibre dispersion results …
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A Comparison of Accounting and Internal Rates of Return for the Firm in A Dynamic Setting
… between Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) and a Weighted-average Internal Rate of Return (WIRR) in a discrete flow model of the firm in some simple dynamic situations. The model parameters are the IRRs, durations, and cash flow profiles of the capital projects which constitute the firm, and the …
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Analysis and Applications of the Km Algorithm in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control and Decision Making
… iterative algorithm is the computation of fuzzy weighted average (FWA) and linguistic weighted average (LWA). Three algorithms that further reduce the computational burden needed to calculate FWA and LWA were presented. Among the three proposed algorithms, the one which requires the least …
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Credit risk-rating system for agricultural leases
… risk. Using the results from these models, a weighted average cost of misclassifying a lease is calculated. This is used to develop a profit maximizing criterion for determining whether a lease is high or low risk. The need for future work is discussed. In the area of weighted average cost of …
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Life Cycle Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Mining and Milling of Uranium in Saskatchewan
… to a more accurate result. The production-weighted average life cycle GHG emissions intensity is estimated as 45 kg CO2e/kg U3O8 at an average ore grade of 9.12% U3O8 based on relative U3O8 production volumes at Mine-Mill A, B, and C from 2006 to 2010. The 95% confidence interval for the …
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A performance linked management accounting typology within contingency and institutional frameworks in the Malaysian manufacturing industry.
… group is better perfroming, based on a weighted average measure of performance of member firms in each Management accounting system (MAS)/Management accounting techniques (MAPT)-type group. The final aims is to model and test a set of predictors of the better and weaker performing …
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Improving hydrometeorologic numerical weather prediction forecast value via bias correction and ensemble analysis
… decisions. This research compared weighted-average, recursive, and model output statistics bias-correction methods and determined optimal window-length to calibrate temperature and precipitation forecasts. The research evaluated seven different methods for daily maximum and minimum …
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Redefining “Space Sustainability” for Launch Vehicles: Forecasting the Atmospheric Impact of the Commercial Space Launch Industry in 2050
… ozone column averaging -0.11 DU. The population-weighted average surface ozone impact is -0.286 ppb, -0.068 ppb, and 0.023 ppb for RP-1 rockets, CH4 rockets, and H2 rockets respectively. The population-weighted average surface PM2.5 impact is -0.031 μg/m3, -0.004 μg/m3, and 0.002 μg/m3 for RP-1, …
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A Comparison of Methods to Construct an Optimal Membership Function in a Fuzzy Database System
… of .02 and .03, the Steplock Method, and the Weighted Average Method, were compared on the basis of convergence and user satisfaction. The results support use of the Direct Rating Method and the Steplock Method in conjunction with each other, to produce the membership function in the least …
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Estimates of the level and shape of mortality rates in South Africa around 1985 and 1990 derived by applying indirect demographic techniques to reported deaths
… for Whites, Coloureds and Asians to produce a weighted average national life tables circa 1985. These national life tables are then compared with those produced by applying the Bennett and Horiuchi method to national data for the 1984-86 period in order to decide on suitable adjustments to make …
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The Vyncke et al. solution for pricing European-style arithmetic Asian options
… A moment-matching formula is used to and a weighted average solution of the two bounds, thereby obtaining a fast approximation to the true price. This method is implemented and tested against an accurate Monte Carlo benchmark and compared with some other well-known closed-form …
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Optimization of path based sensor spacing on a freeway segment for travel time prediction during incidents
… mathematical model is applied to determine the average travel time prediction error by sensor spacing for each of the historical incidents. Third, the weighted average travel time prediction error by sensor spacing is calculated, which considers all the possible incidents and the frequency of …
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Three Essays on Trade Policy and Impacts of Regional Demographic Changes
… The estimation results show that the weighted average import price elasticities of Korean imported mining and manufacturing goods are between -0.12 and -0.36.
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