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Correlational Statistics for Characterising Relationships
This chapter discusses and illustrates correlational statistics for characterising relationships. The purposes of the procedures and fundamental...
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Advanced Data Handling for Business Data Analytics
In this chapter, I will set the stage for analysis beyond what I discussed in the previous chapters. I covered that material at a high level....
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New Frontiers for Scan Statistics: Network, Trajectory, and Text Data
In this chapter we survey the new theoretical developments and the use of scan statistics in data represented as graphs, trajectories, and text....
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Using Scan Statistics for Cluster Detection: Recognizing Real Bandwagons
Bandwagons are ubiquitous in social life. No one doubts that people vote at least sometimes for political candidates simply because they are winning...
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Statistics for Decision Making and Competitive Advantage
In the increasingly competitive global arena of business in the Twenty First century, the select few business graduates distinguish themselves by...
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The State and Perspectives of Employment in the Water Transport System of the Republic of Croatia
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the state of employment and employment trends in the water transport system of the European Union and...
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On Model-Based Clustering of Directional Data with Heavy Tails
Directional statistics deals with data that can be naturally expressed in the form of vector directions. The von Mises-Fisher distribution is one of...
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Two-sided distributions with applications in insurance loss modeling
A framework of two-sided densities is presented for asymmetric continuous distributions consisting of two branches each with its own generating...
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Statistical matching of sample survey data: application to integrate Iranian time use and labour force surveys
Survey data are still contemplated as one of the main sources in official statistics. However, due to the high cost of conducting a survey, as well...
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Shiga University’s endeavor to promote human resources development for data science in Japan
In 2017, Shiga University established the Faculty of Data Science, which was the first faculty in Japan specializing in data science and statistics....
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Analysis of Accounting Transactions
Accounting transactions are the “raw data” of accounting system, but the idiosyncratic vernacular of accounting, and spotty empirical study of...
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Dimensionality Reduction
In business analytics and predictive modeling, data sets often contain hundreds or even thousands of predictor variables, which can create challenges...
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Robert Mislevy
Robert Mislevy is professor emeritus of Measurement, Statistics, and Education at the University of Maryland and was president of the Psychometric...
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The Spatial Structure of Housing Prices in Madrid: Evidence from Spatio-temporal Scan Statistics
We apply spatio-temporal scan statistics on the distributions of asking price per meter squared for various segments of the housing market (attics,...
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Ethical Norms for Statistical Work
Today, official statistics are regarded as an essential component of a functioning democracy in many countries. As a result, ethical issues play a...
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Paul Holland
Paul Holland started working for the Educational Testing Service in 1975 and retired from ETS in 2006. Between 1993 and 2000, he was professor of...
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National Egoism or International Cooperation
National egoism or international cooperation? This is the crucial question in today's world. It is also of immense importance for statistical work....
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Prison Cloud and Big Data Application—Auxiliary Decision Making Support System
To achieve the government goals of ensuring the safety of supervision, improving the level of penalty correction, and promoting fair and honest law...
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Fundamentals of Data Analytics and Lifecycle
This chapter gives a brief overview of the fundamentals and lifecycle of data analytics. The foundation for the present stage of technology, data...
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Improving the design of the Italian permanent population and housing census: a transition towards a massive use of administrative data
The permanent population and housing census (PPHC) has been designed according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) modernization...
