Search Results - subject:"plot"

Access to credit, plot size and cost inefficiency among smallholder tobacco cultivators in Malawi

Hazarika, Gautam; Alwang, Jeffrey - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 29 (2003) 1

access to credit from formal sources, and tobacco plot size, on cost inefficiency among Malawian smallholder tobacco … discernible effect on cost inefficiency, it reduces the gain in cost efficiency from a larger plot size. © 2003 Elsevier Science B …

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Publication bias in industrial relations research

Laroche, Patrice; Doucouliagos, Hristos - Centre Européen de Recherche en Économie Financière … - 2003

Publication bias arises when statistically non-significant results are suppressed or when only results satisfying prior expectations are published. Like most fields, research in industrial relations is vulnerable to publication bias. In this paper, qualitative and quantitative techniques are...

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Investigating the association between weather conditions, calendar events and socio-economic patterns with trends in fire incidence: an Australian case study

Corcoran, Jonathan; Higgs, Gary; Rohde, David; Chhetri, Prem - In: Journal of Geographical Systems 13 (2011) 2, pp. 193-226

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Detecting and modeling nonlinearity in the gas furnace data

Stokes, Houston; Hinich, Melvin - In: Computational Statistics 26 (2011) 1, pp. 77-93

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Comparison of normal probability plots and dot plots in judging the significance of effects in two level factorial designs

Leon, Guillermo de; Grima, Pere; Tort-Martorell, Xavier - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 38 (2011) 1, pp. 161-174

In this article, we present a study carried out to compare the effectiveness of the normal probability plot (NPP) and a … simple dot plot in assessing the significance of the effects in experimental designs with factors at two levels (2k-p designs …

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A robust diagnostic plot for explanatory variables under model mis-specification

Chien, Li-Chu - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 38 (2011) 1, pp. 113-126

A typical added variable plot is a commonly used plot in assessing the accuracy of a normal linear model. This plot is … points or influential observations on the added variable. However, this type of plot is generally in doubt, once the normal …] to propose a robust added variable plot. The validity of this diagnostic plot requires no knowledge of the true …

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Recurrence quantification analysis of global stock markets

Bastos, João A.; Caiado, Jorge - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 7, pp. 1315-1325

This study investigates the presence of deterministic dependencies in international stock markets using recurrence plots and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). The results are based on a large set of free float-adjusted market capitalization stock indices, covering a period of 15 years....

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Use of recurrence plot and recurrence quantification analysis in Taiwan unemployment rate time series

Chen, Wei-Shing - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 7, pp. 1332-1342

-linear deterministic dynamic process. This paper applies a recurrence plot and recurrence quantification approach based on the analysis of …

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Where is the Action?

Andersson, Per; Kjellberg, Hans - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

Taking a set of studies about business action as the empirical starting-point, this paper looks at the various ways in which action is represented. The overall research question can be stated as follows: how is business action reconstructed in our narratives? The texts analysed are collected...

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Transition and Regional Inequality in Russia; Reorganization or Procrastination?

Dolinskaya, Irina; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper analyzes the evolution of interregional income inequality during transition in Russia. The transition matrix approach reveals that between 1991 and 1997 income mobility tended toward a highly uneven long-term distribution with the majority of regions at low income levels and a...

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