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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"positive probability"”.
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Semi-Parametric Likelihood Functions for Bivariate Survival Data
… The aim of this thesis is to investigate a joint probability distribution that can be derived for modeling nonnegative related random variables. We restrict the marginals to a specified lifetime distribution, while proposing a linear relationship between them with an unknown (error) random …
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Estimation in Truncated Exponential Family of Distributions
… the maximum likelihood estimator (m.l.e.) with positive probability in certain truncated distributions is not well known. To mention a few results in the literature:</p> <p>(i) Deemer and Votaw 1955 show that the maximum likelihood estimator does not exist in a truncated negative exponential …
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Probabilistic Methods
… behave on 'average' where by we can formulate a probability space. The method allows one to prove the existence of a structure with particular properties by defining an appropriate probability space of structures and show that the desired properties hold in the space with positive …
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ESSAYS IN FAVOR-TRADING
… observed opportunities to do favors with positive probability each period. We show high types are always able to separate from low types. Separation is implementable as soon as a high type receives a favor opportunity if the opportunities are independent across agents. If they are mutually …
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The Truncated Cauchy Distribution: Estimation of Parameters and Application to Stock Returns
… of the scale parameter fails to exist with positive probability. In particular, necessary and sufficient conditions which give rise to instances of non-existence have been found for the exponential (Deemer and Votaw (1955)), gamma (Broeder (1955), Hegde and Dahiya (1989)), Weibull (Mittal …
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The Political Economy of Strategic Communication
… outlets reveal their private information with positive probability, and misreport otherwise. I find that even though competition triggers more news distortions, it always outperforms monopoly: ``diversity of opinion'' has a value independently of the additional media outlet's bias -- even if it …
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Estimating the Parameters of Truncated Distributions
… in which case the m.l.e. exists with probability one.</p> <p>This research deals with similar results pertaining to the estimation of mean and standard deviation of a normal distribution from a doubly truncated sample, such that the sample observations are within the interval {A,B}, - …
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Search Frictions in Macroeconomics
… all prices in the market but rather have some positive probability of meeting only one or two sellers. In addition, consumers purchase goods that do not perish immediately and are able to postpone transactions. Firms face two types of customers: loyals and shoppers. The presence of a customer …
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Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance
… statements at the start of the game, then with positive probability have an opportunity to send a costly signal of their type at a later stage. I show that this can generate informative cheap-talk in environments in which, absent the prospect of a costly signal, cheap-talk messages would …
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Essays on repeated games and reputations.
… strategy of the Receiver, which determines the probability of an audit and detecting an undesirable behavior of the Sender. The Receiver, on the other hand, may have an inventive not to audit intensively if he thinks that the Sender is going to give the accurate information (since auditing is …
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Essays on new Internet market places
… obtained by attracting all consumers with some positive probability of purchase. This feature undermines the existence of fully informative equilibria under such fee structures, and may result in no information transmission being possible at all. Consumers benefit from increased informativeness, …
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Continuum Methods and Tightness Results for Non-Simple SLE and CLE: Existence, Interactions, and Metric Approximations
… in any topologically compatible way with positive probability. The final part of the thesis investigates the metric geometry of CLEκ gasket – the set of points not surrounded by any loop – in the non-simple regime κ∈(4,8). We initiate the construction of conformal covariant metrics on the …
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… agent will overreport his realized cost with positive probability in equilibrium. Depending upon the cost sharing parameter, the equilibrium cost reporting and monitoring strategies may either involve pooling or a mixed strategy solution. Second, we show that the optimal contract with costly …
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Mismatched Decoding: Capacity and Error Exponent Upper Bounds
… for tackling this problem based on analysing the probability of error of a given codebook using an auxiliary channel and a hypothetical decoder. Careful design of the auxiliary channel leads to a lower bound on the probability of error of the codebook in the original mismatched decoding problem. …
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Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory
… of the history, while the lowest is strictly positive and does depend on past play. We show that previous period play is a sufficient statistic for the set of bond prices. The lower bound on bond prices rises when the government avoids default under duress. Chapter 2, joint work with Yu Xu, …