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The Impact of Covariance on American Community Survey Margins of Error: Computational Alternatives
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an indispensable tool for studying the United States (US) population. Each year the US Census Bureau (BOC)...
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Investigating people’s lifetime history of suicide attempts: a roadmap for studying interviewer-related error
It is critically important to correctly identify persons with a lifetime history (LTH) of suicide attempts (SA) from both a clinical and research...
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Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes
Relationships between activity engagement and health related quality of life (HRQOL) can differ based on the level of analyses. For instance, greater...
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Undocumented, Unschooled? Trial and Error in the Migrant Justice Movement in Quebec
In this chapter, we examine the emergence and development of an aspiration towards social justice based on the case of a movement to give...
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Measurement error of the Mini-Mental State Examination among individuals with dementia that reside in nursing homes
Few studies have investigated the measurement error of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in the same unit of measurement, also known as...
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Errors and Innovations in L2 Varieties of English: Towards Resolving a Contradictory Practice
Kachru’s “Three Circles” model distinguishes between English as a native language (ENL), English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign...
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Black-Shoes-Merton Model and Neural Networks in River Level Prediction: Case Study on La Leche River - Peru
The rugged relief of Peru determines a particular hydrological regime. This geographical context includes our region, which is also affected by...
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Stock Market Prediction Based on Advanced LSTM Models
Deep learning models prove their success in solving time series problems in many domains such as the stock market. In this contribution, we compared...
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Accuracy of Local Authority Population Forecasts Produced by a New Minimal Data Model: A Case Study of England
The preparation of forecasts for small and local area populations involves many challenges. Standard cohort-component models are problematic because...
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Grey Markov Models for Predicting the Social Sustainability Performances of Firms
Considering the three dimensions of sustainability, viz. economic, environmental, and social, the social dimensions of sustainability are getting...
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How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution
The cross-fertilisation between biological and cultural evolution has led to an extensive borrowing of key concepts, theories, and statistical...
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An ounce of prevention: using conversational interviewing and avoiding agreement response scales to prevent acquiescence
Acquiescent response style (ARS), the tendency for survey respondents to agree with survey items, is of particular concern for increasing measurement...
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Housing rental submarkets in hedonic regression: econometric arguments and practical application
The paper deals with a hedonic model of housing rents focusing on geographical submarkets in the Belgian region of Wallonia. The question is what is...
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Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting
Small-area population forecasting, such as the forecasting of age/gender grou**s at the level of US Census Tracts, is challenged by thorny issues...
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Estimating the civilian noninstitutional population for small areas: a modified cohort component approach using public use data
This article develops a demographic method to estimate the civilian noninstitutional population for counties and county equivalents in the U.S. While...
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A new matrix-based formulation for computing the variance components F-test in linear models with crossed random effects
This paper considers the problem of testing statistical hypotheses about the variance components under linear models with crossed random effects. The...
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Modeling the number of unemployed in South Sumatra Province using the exponential smoothing methods
The number of open unemployment in South Sumatra Province from year to year is found to be unstable. It can cause serious developmental problems. One...
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Preregistration and Registered Reports in Sociology: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Other Considerations
Both within and outside of sociology, there are conversations about methods to reduce error and improve research quality—one such method is...
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Facets of Death at Lake Kariba: Hydro-accidents and Fatalities
Drawing on the broader literature on death in sub-Saharan Africa, this chapter critically discusses death at Lake Kariba. It engages with the...