Search Results - subject:"Principal component Analysis"

Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Social capital as social networks. A new framework for measurement

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

The contribution of this paper to the social capital literature is twofold. Drawing on the Italian data, it firstly provides a new framework for measurement, allowing to build indicators for five different components of the multidimensional concept of social capital. Secondly, it provides a...

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Assessment of River Water Quality in Northwestern Greece

Kotti, Melina; Vlessidis, Athanasios; Thanasoulias, … - In: Water Resources Management 19 (2005) 1, pp. 77-94

component analysis (PCA) for the estimation of the underlying variable correlations and were further explored by means of …> <Subscript>3−</Subscript> were measured, employing standard methods of analysis. The results were subjected to principal …

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Using the principal component analysis method as a tool in contractor pre-qualification

Lam, K. C.; Hu, T. S.; Ng, S. T. - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 7, pp. 673-684

empirical method using principal component analysis (PCA) is proposed for contractor pre-qualification in this study. The …

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A concentration study of principal components

Benasseni, Jacques - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 32 (2005) 9, pp. 947-957

component analysis. This paper suggests a practical alternative for the eigenvalues by introducing a sensitivity measure derived …Influence functions are commonly used as diagnostic tools in order to investigate sensitivity aspects in principal …

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Construcción de un índice de privación material para los municipios de la Región Sanitaria Girona/Constructing a privation index for the municipalities of the Girona Health Region

LERTXUNDI-MANTEROLA, AITANA; SAURINA, CARME; SAEZ, MARC; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 23 (2005) Abril, pp. 331-353

’s deprivation index, we built another deprivation index by means of Principal Component Analysis. Firstly, our index provided a …

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development.The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Child Malnutrition, Social Development and Health Services in the Andean Region

CARLOS, LARREA; PEDRO, MONTALVO; ANA, RICAURTE - EconWPA - 2005

This study analyzes social, ethnic and regional determinants of child malnutrition, as well as the effects of access to health services in the Andean Region, through a comparison between Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. These three countries share a profile with high stunting prevalence and strong...

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Forward curve dynamics in the Nordic electricity market

Koekebakker, Steen; Ollmar, Fridthjof - In: Managerial Finance 31 (2005) 6, pp. 73-94

multi‐factor term structure models in a Heath‐Jarrow‐Morton framework. Principal component analysis is used to reveal the …

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