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Modelling scale effects in rating data: a Bayesian approach
We present a Bayesian approach for the analysis of rating data when a scaling component is taken into account, thus incorporating a specific form of...
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Calibration of Fuzzy Sets, Calibration of Measurement: A Realist Synthesis
This chapter takes up linkages between factor analysis (i.e. scales) and making a series of separate binary variates that represent distinct...
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A supervised record linkage approach for anomaly detection in insurance assets granular data
Nowadays public authorities and research organizations compile and disseminate statistics based on granular data with rapidly increasing volumes....
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Beyond Continuous versus Categorical Dichotomy: Uncovering Latent Structure of Non-electoral Political Participation Using Zero-Inflated Models
While modeling political participation as a latent variable, researchers usually choose whether to conceptualize and model participation as a latent...
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Approaches and Alternatives to the Wealth Index to Measure Socioeconomic Status Using Survey Data: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires the global community to disaggregate targets along socio-economic...
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Worker Well-Being and Quit Intentions: Is Measuring Job Satisfaction Enough?
The links between worker well-being and quit intentions have been well researched. However, the vast majority of extant studies use just one measure,...
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How to evaluate the effects of IMF conditionality
Following calls for a more disaggregated approach to studying the consequences of IMF programs, scholars have developed new datasets of IMF-mandated...
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Cost-Benefit Versus Expected Utility Acceptance Rules
A rule for the acceptance of scientific hypotheses called ‘the principle of cost-benefit dominance’ is shown to be more effective and efficient than...
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Measuring Household Wealth with Latent Trait Modelling: An Application to Malawian DHS Data
There is increasing awareness in the literature that the more commonly utilised approaches to measure wealth from assets are problematic. The...
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Birth Outcome Measures and Infant Mortality
Recent studies have proposed alternative birth outcome measures as means of assessing infant mortality risk; nevertheless, there hasn’t yet been an...
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Some Recent Developments in Game Theory
In this paper I propose to discuss some recent developments in game theory over the last twenty years.1 The main topics I will consider are...
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Comparison of Decision Models and Some Suggestions
Six decision models are distinguished by two criteria (consequences: original or transformed; probabilities: a priori or a posteriori or subjective)....
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Experimental Applications of Multi-Attribute Utility Models
Most complex decisions require the decision maker to make trade-offs between competing value objectives. This paper begins by reviewing the...