Search Results - subject:"Linear Models"

Forecasting telecommunications data with linear models

Madden, Gary G; Tan, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

For telecommunication companies to successfully manage their business, companies rely on mapping future trends and usage patterns. However, the evolution of telecommunications technology and systems in the provision of services renders imperfections in telecommunications data and impinges on a...

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You Can Take it with You! The Returns to Foreign Human Capital of Male Temporary Foreign Workers

Warman, Casey - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2007

The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada, one of the major causes has been the decline in the returns to foreign work experience. Using the 1991, 1996 and 2001 Canadian Census Master Datafiles and applying both...

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Gcc Monetary Union and the Degree of Macroeconomic Policy Coordination

Kamar, Bassem; Naceur, Samy Ben - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Coordinating macroeconomic policies is a pre-requisite to a successful launch of the common currency in the GCC countries. Relying on the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate approach as a theoretical framework, we apply the Pooled Mean Group methodology to determine the similarity of the impact...

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Negative Blogs, Positive Outcomes: When should Firms Permit Employees to Blog Honestly?

Aggarwal, Rohit; Gopal, Ram; Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh - NET Institute - 2007

Weblogs or blogs have recently received a lot of attention, especially in the business community, with a number of firms encouraging their employees to publish blogs to reach out and connect to a wider audience. It is beginning to be recognized that employee blogs can cast a firm in either a...

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Determinants of linear judgment: A meta-analysis of lens model studies

Karelaia, Natalia; Hogarth, Robin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

The mathematical representation of Brunswik’s lens model has been used extensively to study human judgment and provides a unique opportunity to conduct a meta-analysis of studies that covers roughly five decades. Specifically, we analyze statistics of the “lens model equation” (Tucker,...

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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-Linear Models

Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2006

In this paper, a general Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition is derived that can also be applied to non-linear models, which …

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Spatial smoothing techniques for the assessment of habitat suitability

Kneib, Thomas; Müller, Jörg; Hothorn, Torsten - 2006

abundance data to a set of influential variables in a regression setup. In particular, generalised linear models are used to … the key assumptions of generalised linear models, the independence of the observations is often violated in practice since … done in the context of generalised linear models. In this paper, we describe a general framework for semiparametric spatial …

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Regime transplants in GDP growth forecasting: A recipe for better predictions?

Gelder, Lennard van; Stokman, Ad - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

Formal testing and estimation of nonlinear relations require a substantial number of observations which are typically lacking in annual models. In this paper, a novel two-step procedure is introduced to model nonlinearities in yearly asset-price based leading indicator models for growth. In the...

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Within and Between Group Variation of Individual Strategies in Common Pool Resources: Evidence from Field Experiments

Velez, Maria Alejandra; Murphy, James J.; Stranlund, John K. - 2006

With data from framed common pool resource experiments conducted with artisanal fishing communities in Colombia, we estimate a hierarchical linear model to investigate within-group and between-group variation in individual harvest strategies across several institutions. Our results suggest that...

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On heuristic and linear models of judgment: Mapping the demand for knowledge

Hogarth, Robin; Karelaia, Natalia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

highly effective. A further line of research has modeled judgment as resulting from “as if” linear models. This paper … tasks. Our results highlight the trade-off between linear models and heuristics. Whereas the former are cognitively …

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