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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"event history"”.
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Event History Analysis: A Quantile Regression Approach
… of the unobserved heterogeneity problem in event history analysis. In Chapter 2 we analyze the estimation and inference procedures of MPH models. In chapter 3 we examine the theoretical properties of random effects duration quantiles, while in Chapter 4 we present a Monte Carlo study of the …
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Contraceptive switching among American women: A dynamic analysis of event history
… NSFG-II and NSFG-IV, the study uses a method of event history to examine how American women change their birth control practices as they pass through their reproductive life and how their patterns of contraceptive switching vary by social and demographic characteristics.
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Person or place? A contextual event-history analysis of homicide victimization risk
This study is a contextual event history analysis of the risk of homicide victimization in the United States from 1986 to 2002. Although the majority of research on homicide deals with how community factors influence homicide rates, a much less studied aspect of homicide victimization deals with …
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An event history analysis of socio-economic determinants of adult mortality in Namibia
… The main objective of the study was to apply an event history discrete time survival analysis approach to elucidate effects of socio-economic factors on adult mortality in Namibia. Specifically I simultaneously estimated the effects of socio-economic determinants on adult mortality in Namibia; as …
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Comparison of Event History Analysis and Latent Growth Modeling for College Student Perseverance
Event history analysis is the most prevalent modeling technique used to model event occurrence with longitudinal data (Cox & Oakes, 1984; Menard, 1991; Singer & Willett, 1993, 2003). An alternative is to model longitudinal data within the SEM framework, known as latent variable growth modeling …
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Teachers union influence on alternative teacher certification policies: An event history diffusion analysis.
… in the states between 1975 and 2000 using event history analysis and supplementing the event history analysis with an ordinary least squares regression analysis of the strength of the alternative teacher certification policies. In order to test both teachers unions political strength …
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When is it Our Time?: An Event History Model of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights Policy Adoption
<p>Gays and lesbians have long struggled for their rights as citizens, yet only recently has their struggle been truly politicized in a way that fosters mobilization. When and why social movements coalesce despite the many obstacles to collective action are fundamental questions in comparative …
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Diffusion, co-evolution and strategic interdependence in comparative and international politics: new spatial econometric and event history approaches
… as if all the observational units and events were independent. The essays in this thesis explore three sources of interdependence in the study of democratization: the first concerns the causal connection between the emergence and collapse of democracy; the second is the diffusion of …
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An Event History Analysis on the Effects of Academic Integration Factors on Degree Completion of Low-Income Underrepresented Minority Students
… completion and withdrawal, this study utilized Event History Analysis (EHA). EHA characterized the probability that a student would graduate or drop out during the study period and modeled the probability as a function of targeted covariates using discrete-time logistic regression. Results …
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Statistical modeling of longitudinal survey data with binary outcomes
… the risk factors of the incidence of asthma (event history analysis) and of recurrent asthma episodes (recurrent survival analysis). Missing data analysis was used to study the bias associated with incomplete data. To determine the risk factors of asthma prevalence, the Generalized Estimating …
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The familial and behavioral antecedents of children's injuries
… the context of each other. Second, it employs event-history techniques to identify risk factors that may operate only at specific ages in childhood.
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A Decision-Support Framework for Guiding Local Medical Device Innovation: An Innovation Systems perspective
… sector is impeded by systemic barriers that prevent a significant proportion of locally developed technologies from reaching the market. This failure to translate promising innovations into commercial products represents a substantial loss of potential economic and social value. This research …
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Semiparametric and nonparametric methods for the analysis of panel count data
Panel count data are one type of event-history data concerning recurrent events. Ideally for an event-history study, subjects should be monitored continuously, so for the events that may happen recurrently over time, the exact time of each event occurrence is recordable. Data obtained in such cases …
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Migration as an adaptive response to ethnic nationalism in Russia
… generating out-migration. I estimate an event history model and find that, although ethnic minorities do not demonstrate a higher propensity to migrate than the majority group, they do respond differently to political and economic push factors, in particular, to signals sent by …
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PROGRAM EVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN JAPAN
… to speakers of other languages (TESOL) has a history dating from the 1960's. The focus of previous program evaluations has been on language achievement at the end of the program of study (Lynch, 1996). However, to improve or maintain program quality, teacher education of future foreign …
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Premarital cohabitation as a pathway into marriage. An investigation into how premarital cohabitation is transforming the institution of marriage in Ireland. Athlone as a case study.
… together first. Respondents also filled in an event history calendar, recording key events in their lives, since the age of 16 years. Using a life course analysis methodology, the findings make a major contribution to the debate in sociology over the dynamics of change in the transformation of …
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Guaranteed Income as a Structural Social Work Response to Homelessness in the United States
… homelessness in the United States, 2) use event history analysis to test the impact of a guaranteed income on housing outcomes for people who are unhoused, and 3) explore the participant-perceived outcomes of guaranteed income, including the role that services play, through qualitative …
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The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy
… The hypotheses derived are tested through an event history analysis for two different standards of democracy. The results suggest that factors indicative of all four theoretical concepts contribute to the likelihood of democratization after a civil war.
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Shrinkage Estimation for Aalen's Additive Model
… which deals with the analysis of time to event (or in general event history). In particular, regression models that relate event occurrence rates to predictor variables are quite common in the medical field. One such regression model is the Aalen's nonparametric additive model in which the …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… first quantitative studies of ECT adoptions. The event history analysis shows that administrative capacity, operationalized as indirect tax structure, has a positive effect on the implementation of ECT, but only for the first adopters after which this effect declines. Social democracy is a robust …
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