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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"non-response bias"”.
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Improving applicability of the non-monotone unified estimate for missing data
… causes a loss of statistical power and can cause non-response bias. Inverse probability weighting is one method used to avoid non-response bias. However, when some individuals have partially observed data inverse probability weighting has only a limited ability to use this data. The unified …
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Comparison of three survey methods applied to the recreational rock lobster fishery of Western Australia.
… Australia. Mail surveys are susceptible to non-response and recall bias. The key to determining useful estimates of fishing catch and effort is to minimise both biases. Telephone recall surveys, with high response rates, effectively eliminate nonresponse bias. However, they still suffer from …
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Instructional Leadership in Guam's Public Elementary Schools
… participated, and there was no evidence of non-response bias. From this study, findings revealed that both principals and teachers shared the same perceptions regarding their principals' current instructional leadership performance. Both agreed that the three job functions principals …
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Interactive Voice Response Polling in Election Campaigns
Since the early 2000s, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has become a widely popular method of conducting public opinion surveys in the United States. IVR surveys use an automated computer voice to ask survey questions and elicit responses in place of a live interviewer. Previous studies have shown …
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A cross-cultural study of accounting concepts applied in international financial reporting standards
… sub-culture was also found. Although the low response rate was a problem, the consistency of the respondents’ demographic profile with the population and the insignificant non-response bias suggest that the results are generalisable. The discovery of the accounting motivational values has …
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Better member outcomes in superannuation through data driven financial literacy prediction
… The prediction framework addresses the issue of non-response bias while maximising predictive performance. Finally, the prediction framework is validated against a real world business problem, customer churn. The findings of this research indicate that the measurement construct for superannuation …
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The impact of social capital on customer relationship management performance in the Egyptian financial sector
… firms) using a drop & collect method. The usable response rate of 96.6 per cent was tested for non- response bias. The data analysis focused on exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modelling and regression models which statistically validated the proposed …
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Measuring Medicinal Nontimber Forest Product Output in Eastern Deciduous Forests
Nontimber forest products (NTFPs) play an important role in the lives of people who rely on forests. An absence of data on the size of harvests, their location, and the economic value of NTFPs prevents effective management and full utilization by all stakeholder groups. We set out to measure one …
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Factors influencing the popularity of YouTube videos and users’ decisions to watch them
… a convenience sample selected to achieve a high response rate, which it achieved (81%), minimising non-response bias. The video lists provided by the YouTube API were not random samples but contained a wide range of types of video (including both popular and unpopular), except that older videos …
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Modeling Factors that Influence Firm Performance in the Eastern Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing Industry
… relationships among the variables. An adjusted response rate of 19.8% was obtained from the mail survey. Non-response bias was not found to be a significant problem in the data. A twelve measure performance indicator was developed and utilized to evaluate the performance of hardwood lumber …
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Exporting knitted apparel. A study of the determinants of exporting performance in the UK knitted apparel sector.
… follow-up by mail and telephone generated a response rate of 70 per cent, comprising close to half of the sampling frame, that was representative of all company size bands, levels of exporting and products. The overall quality of the responses was good; tests of non-response did not find any …
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Workplace injuries, early opioid prescribing, and disability in Washington State
… as having at least one opioid prescription but none of the high-risk indicators shortly after injury. Using inverse probability weighting, we accounted for non-response bias and assigned opioid treatment weights while controlling for injury severity, injury characteristics, comorbidities and …