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Estimating and predicting the distribution of the number of visits to the medical doctor

Dai, Jing; Zucchini, Walter; Sperlich, Stefan - 2011

In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...

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Russian USE and olympiads as instruments for university admission selection

Peresetsky, Анатолий Пересецкий; … - In: Applied Econometrics 23 (2011) 3, pp. 41-56

The paper considers efficiency of the Russian Unified State Exam (USE, or EGE, Russian version of SAT), and results of «olympiads» — national students’ contests in economics, mathematics as predictors of ICEF HSE students’ academic achievements. Most courses in ICEF are taught in...

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Estimating and predicting the distribution of the number of visits to the medical doctor

Dai, Jing; Sperlich, Stefan; Zucchini, Walter - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011

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Predicting success in college on the basis of the results of unified national exam

Poldin, Oleg - In: Applied Econometrics 21 (2011) 1, pp. 56-69

This paper presents the results of econometric study on predicting first-year grade point average and dropout …

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Forecasting Financial Stress

Slingenberg, Jan Willem; Haan, Jakob de - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

This paper uses a Financial Stress Index (FSI) for 13 OECD countries to examine which variables can help predicting …

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Big Five Personality in Online Learning and Games: Analysis of Student Activity

Krátky, Peter; Tvarožek, Jozef; Chudá, Daniela - In: International Journal of Human Capital and Information … 7 (2016) 3, pp. 33-46

Online learning gives promise of effective learning for masses. Personalized learning experiences tailored for individual needs and preferences of each student are key ingredients in making online learning successful. Current approaches to adaptive and personalized online learning use student's...

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Personal innovativeness as a predictor of entrepreneurial value creation

Stauffer, Dennis - In: International Journal of Innovation Science 8 (2016) 1, pp. 4-26

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to determine whether innovativeness is a personal attribute that enhances entrepreneurial success and to obtain external validation for the Valuable Novelty Theory of innovation and the Innovator Mindset (IM) instrument for measuring personal innovativeness....

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A user’s personality prediction approach by mining network interaction behaviors on Facebook

Chen, Tsung-Yi; Tsai, Meng-Che; Chen, Yuh-Min - In: Online Information Review 40 (2016) 7, pp. 913-937

, this research developed a method for predicting personality types based on interaction logs. Findings Experimental results … performance for predicting personality types, with 70-80 percent accuracy. Research limitations/implications In this research, the … interaction features. Originality/value This research has developed an approach for automatically predicting the personality types …

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Optimal design of a multi-server queueing system with delay information

Yu, Miao; Gong, Jun; TANG, Jiafu - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 116 (2016) 1, pp. 147-169

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for the optimal design of queueing systems of call centers with delay information. The main decisions in the design of such systems are the number of servers, the appropriate control to announce delay anticipated....

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A simple method for predicting distributions by means of covariates with examples from poverty and health economics

Dai, Jing; Sperlich, Stefan; Zucchini, Walter - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 152 (2016) 1, pp. 49-80

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