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In the introductory chapter it has been laid out, that knowledge as an input factor of production exhibits a strong influence on economic development. The increasing knowledge intensity in the globalised economy needs to focus on the determinants of the "knowledge based society". Two major...
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Financial feasibility and financial return are two key issues that farmers andland owners consider when deciding between alternative land uses such as arablefarming, forestry and agroforestry. Moreover regional variations in yields,prices and government grants mean that the relative revenue and...
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The point source is the most common type of source to be modeled for its effect on air pollution. Point sources provide auxiliary information that may impact both the mean and covariance structure of measured responses, but these possible impacts are often overlooked by spatial modelers. In this...
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In survival data analysis, the proportional hazards (PH), accelerated failure time(AFT), and proportional odds (PO) models are commonly used semiparametric models forthe comparison of survivability in subjects. These models assume that the survival curvesdo not cross. However, in some clinical...
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This dissertation quantitatively evaluates selected labor market policies in a search-matching model with skill heterogeneity where high-skilled workers can take temporary jobs with skill requirements below their skill levels. The joint posterior distribution of structural parameters of the...
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Advances in capture–recapture methodology have allowed the inclusion of continuous, time-dependent individual-covariates as predictors of survival and capture probabilities. The problem posed by these covariates is that they are only observed for an individual when that individual is captured....
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The present dissertation consists of three stand-alone research papers that all deal with factor models from a Bayesian perspective, both in a theoretical and an empirical setup. More precisely, the thesis is organized in a progressive way as follows: Chapter 1 briefly presents the general...
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We present an hierarchical Bayes approach to modeling parameter heterogeneity in generalized linear models. The model assumes that there are relevant subpopulations and that within each subpopulation the individual-level regression coefficients have a multivariate normal distribution. However,...
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The statistical inference based on the ordinary least squares regression is sub-optimal when the distributions are skewed or when the quantity of interest is the upper or lower tail of the distributions. For example, the changes in Total Sharp Scores (TSS), the primary measurements of the...
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This thesis presents a new forecasting technique that estimates energy demand by applying a Bayesian approach to forecasting. We introduce our Bayesian Heating Oil Forecaster (BHOF), which forecasts daily heating oil demand for individual customers who are enrolled in an automatic delivery...
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