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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"nominal variables"”.
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A Comparative Analysis of Instructional Resources at Intermediate Agricultural Schools in Developing Nations (Africa, Asia, Latin America)
… were any significant differences within the nominal variables by specific indicators of the educational program. The directors at these intermediate agricultural schools were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire developed through a University of Illinois Research Project headed by Burton E. …
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A Rational Expectations Equilibrium Model Of A Small, Specialized Economy
… countries. One interesting finding is that real variables outweigh nominal variables in explaining the cycle.
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Money, transactions and the business cycle: inspecting the mechanism
… driven by the technology shock, while nominal variables are mainly affected by the monetary shock. However, when it comes to the correlations of the endogenous variables with money growth, the CIA and the RRC models fail along many dimensions, when only consumption is linked with money …
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Empirical identification of the risk shifting aspect of labor market implicit contracts
… the context of an implicit contract model with nominal variables and a randomly fluctuating price level. Under the usual assumption of risk neutral firms and risk averse workers the implications of the model are refuted by the industry level nominal wage stylized facts. Under the assumption that …
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Business Ethics, Social Responsibility and AIDS in Workplaces in Zimbabwe
… to determine relationships between categorical variables such as policies, programs and the types of businesses and ownership. Chi-squares tested the statistical significance of the relationships between various nominal variables. Logistics regressions were conducted to measure the amount of …
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A Study of Some Relationships Among Repeat Abortion, Self Concept, and Contraceptive Use in Young Women
… concept, and using the Chi Square test for the nominal variables, contraceptive use and educational level.</p> <p>Do repeat abortion clients have a lower self concept and educational level, and a less effective use of contraceptives than first-time abortion clients and nonpregnant women …
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The Development of Models to Identify Relationships Between First Costs of Green Building Strategies and Technologies and Life Cycle Costs for Public Green Facilities
… The multiple regression models include dummy variables because this is a convenient way of applying a single regression equation to represent several nominal variables, which here consist of initial, operating, maintenance, and repair and replacement costs, and ordinal variables, which in this …
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A comparison of spinal anaesthesia with and without transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing elective caesarean section at Windhoek Hospital Complex
… Numbers with percentages were used to represent nominal variables, while continuous variables were summarized in terms of mean ± SD or median and interquartile range, as appropriate. A statistician examined the distribution of the data before iii using the Student's T-test to compare the results …
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Recent Advances in Bayesian Copula Models for Mixed Data and Quantile Regression
… comprised mixed continuous, count, ordinal and nominal data types which poses substantial modeling challenges. We develop a novel Bayesian Gaussian copula model for synthesis of the North Carolina data based on the Extended Rank-Probit Likelihood (RPL), which modifies existing copula models to …
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A typology of pits on the Engelbert site
… of both size-shape (interval) and stratigraphic (nominal) variables. Among the techniques available to the writer the most appropriate ones seemed to be cluster analysis and discriminant function analysis for interval variables and association analysis for the nominal ones. The analysis of …
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Visualising categorical data: Linguistic case studies from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English
Categorical variables are prevalent in real-world datasets across numerous domains, yet few visualisation techniques accommodate them effectively. This is especially true of datasets comprising three or more categorical variables, termed multivariate categorical data. Visualising such data is …