Keyword: statistics: empirical

Found 890 papers in total
Double weighting for calculating an average: Why and how?
2007,
The weighted average operator is often used to assign a value v(a) to entities a from...
Horizontal cooperation in logistics: Opportunities and impediments
2007,
This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey on the potential benefits of...
Sizing backbone internet links
2005,
One of the distinguishing features of a backbone link is that it is designed to carry...
Combining player statistics to predict outcomes of tennis matches
2005,
With the growth in sports betting, it is possible to bet, both before and during a...
Mining market data: A network approach
2006,
We consider a network representation of the stock market data referred to as the...
Structural deficits and the politics of balancing the budget: the case of Missouri Fiscal Year 2004 budget
2006,
This paper uses the Missouri Fiscal Year 2004 budget as a case study to illustrate two...
Auction off the farm: signaling, politics and economic development
2006,
Local public officials rely on tax and non-tax incentive packages to develop their...
Public sector investment failures: theoretical contributions from new institutional and Austrian economic theory
2006,
This paper illustrates how two contemporary economic traditions – New...
Determining newspaper marketing zones using contiguous clustering
2005,
We develop a heuristic procedure for partitioning graphs into clusters of nodes such...
The goals and implementation success of state performance-based budgeting
2005,
There has been a great deal of research regarding the success and impact of state...
Will GASB 34 induce changes in local government forecasting practice? A preliminary investigation
2005,
Certain of GASB Statement 34's requirements might on their face induce an upgrading of...
A threshold-varying artificial neural network approach for classification and its application to bankruptcy prediction problem
2005,
We propose a threshold-varying artificial neural network (TV-ANN) approach for solving...
School results and access test results as indicators of first-year performance at university
2004,
The goals set by the National Plan for Higher Education, the fact that many schools...
Statistical properties of indicators of first-year performance at university
2004,
Appraisal of admission procedures is a matter of urgency for South African...
Logistics service provider–client relationships
2005,
The paper investigates the effects of relationship orientation in the logistics...
Logistics capability and performance in Taiwan's major manufacturing firms
2005,
This study, based on a survey of 1200 manufacturing firms in Taiwan, uses structural...
Enhancing student learning with governmental accounting jeopardy!
2005,
The Bedford Committee (1986) and the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC,...
Logistics managers' stated preferences for freight service attributes
2005,
This paper reports the results of an adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) experiment...
Beyond the limits of recreation: social costs of gambling in southern Nevada
2005,
This study seeks to find the dollar value of social costs of gambling. The authors use...
Functional data analysis for clients segmentation tasks
2005,
Functional analysis of variance (FANOVA) is used to test whether there are some...
A consideration of political culture and gambling policy: Has economics trumped moralistic politics?
2005,
Elazar's typology of politcal cultures is examined. From his categorization of...
Special assessments in Florida cities and counties; dodging amendment 10?
2004,
Special assessments have become an ever more popular form of taxation in Florida's...
Competition and economic development efforts in the garden state: perceptions of municipal public officials
2004,
Competition for private investment, it has been argued, is often the fiercest between...
A comprehensive approach to the assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) projects
2004,
One of the most popular economic development incentive tools used today is Tax...
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