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Sigma Ratings Case Study
… focuses on MIT startup and delta v alumnus Sigma Ratings, a non-credit agency, founded in 2017 by Gabrielle Haddad and Stuart Jones Jr. It immerses the reader in the decision-making process of the company, after its business model revealed major flaws necessitating a pivot to ensure its survival …
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Split credit ratings and the prediction of bank ratings in the Basel II environment
… credit rating models for use under the Internal ratings-based approach. This thesis presents a variety of bank rating modes for individual and long term ratings across different agencies and regions.<br/><br/>Using an extensive database of credit rating agencies with a sample of over 52,000 split …
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Minority Bias in Supervisor Ratings: Comparing Subjective Ratings and Objective Measures of Job Performance
Supervisor ratings of job performance and objective sales performance were examined to better understand the causes of observed differences in performance ratings between Men and Women and Caucasians and African-Americans. Sex and race did not significantly predict subjective ratings of job …
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
… psychological biases that affected the hedonic ratings. There are many more factors that could sway sensory responses and prevent experimenters from getting accurate, valid and actionable outcome. Understanding of psychological biases, proper product selection, and proper data analysis should be …
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Performance Appraisal Ratings as a Function of Source of Ratings and Purpose of the Appraisal
… investigated the effects of purpose of appraisal ratings and source of appraisal ratings on four dependent measures: leniency, halo, variability, and construct validity. The purpose factor was comprised of four different levels: merit pay, performance improvement, research only, and no defined …
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Administrators' ratings of teacher performance and perceptions of ratings on the North Carolina performance appraisal system
… to examine school administrators' observations, ratings, and perceptions of rating scores on the North Carolina Teacher Performance Appraisal Instrument. The process of evaluating teaching behaviors and reaching agreement on the ratings was also addressed. Attention was directed to three research …
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Making raters more accountable for their performance ratings: effects of expecting a supervisory review of ratings
… their actual professors to justify performance ratings. To further investigate the nature of accountability, this study contrasted with Tetlock's work in utilizing two different types of accountability and a decision shift control group. Results of this decision shift control group raised …
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Climate Change and Municipal Bond Ratings
… risks are incorporated into municipal bond ratings. In particular, I investigate whether municipalities with exposure to sea-level rise have lower bond ratings. Using a sample of rated bond issuances from 2011 to 2020, I docu- ment a negative relationship between bond ratings and climate …
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A Descriptive Correlational Study of Relationship Between Adult Postoperative Patient's Pain Ratings and Nurse's Ratings of Patient's Pain
The objectives of this study were to (a) determine the patient's rating of their pain, (b) find out the patient's expectation of the nurse's rating of their pain, (c) determine the nurse's rating of the patient's pain and (d) specify when the last communication regarding pain occurred between the …
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An Exploration of Online Consumer Ratings Systems
Online consumer ratings systems are an important source of information for consumers as they make purchasing decisions. In this dissertation, my coauthors and I elucidate how the way that consumers are asked to provide ratings affects the ratings they give and how different aspects of an existing …
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Ordinal Regression to Evaluate Student Ratings Data
… influence student evaluations using the teacher ratings data of Brigham Young University from Fall 2001 to Fall 2006. This project uses ordinal regression to model the probability of an instructor receiving a good, average, or poor rating. Student grade, instructor status, class level, student …
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The Informational Value of Corporate Credit Ratings
This thesis examines the quality of credit ratings issued by the three major credit rating agencies - Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and Fitch. If credit ratings are informative, then prices of underlying credit instruments such as fixed-income securities and credit default insurance should change to …
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Techniques for Assessing the Quality of Ratings
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Some Determinants of Supervisory and Peer Ratings
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US yield forecasting using crop condition ratings
… wheat, and spring wheat, and crop condition ratings from 1986 to 2015. Three statistical models were tested, the first one including all categories of condition ratings, a trend, and no intercept. The second model addresses the issue of abandoned acres following the ideas of Fackler & Norwood …
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A context-based personalized ratings management system
In an online community of any size, every user garners reputations for different contexts through interactions with other users. When any user in the online community is interested in a certain context, the user would value the opinions of those users of high repute with respect to that context. …
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A virtual flow meter to develop velocity-index ratings and evaluate the effect of flow disturbances on these ratings
… intervals. The application of velocity index ratings assumes that the relation between the measured index velocity and the mean velocity in a cross-section is constant. This assumption is not valid if the channel experiences significant flow disturbances. This thesis presents a virtual flow …
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