Search Results - subject:"statistical hypothesis testing"

Płatności ONW a regionalne zróżnicowanie dochodu z rodzinnego gospodarstwa rolnego w Polsce

Sadłowski, Adrian - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 12 (2012) 27

The relationship between the Farm Net Income and the location of agricultural activity as well as the importance of LFA payments in equalizing the profitability of farms located in different FADN regions were examined. It was found that during the survey period there was a statistically...

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Statistical vs. Economic Significance in Economics and Econometrics: Further comments on McCloskey & Ziliak

Engsted, Tom - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2009

fundamental dif- ference in opinion on the usefulness of classical statistical hypothesis testing procedures in scientific … between statisti- cal and economic significance and where the limitations of statistical hypothesis testing are clearly … are non-negligible systematic deviations between the data and the model. Statistical hypothesis testing procedures ob …

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Sample size determination for kernel regression estimation using sequential fixed-width confidence bands

Dharmasena, L. Sandamali; Zeephongsekul, P.; de Silva, … - 2008

We consider a random design model based on independent and identically distributed pairs of observations (Xi, Yi), where the regression function m(x) is given by m(x) = E(Yi|Xi = x) with one independent variable. In a nonparametric setting the aim is to produce a reasonable approximation to the...

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Statistical vs. economic significance in economics and econometrics: further comments on McCloskey and Ziliak

Engsted, Tom - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 16 (2009) 4, pp. 393-408

I comment on the controversy between McCloskey and Ziliak and Hoover and Siegler on statistical versus economic significance, in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology. I argue that while McCloskey and Ziliak are right in emphasizing 'real error', i.e. non-sampling error...

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Seeding in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: When is a Higher Seed Better?

Jacobson, Sheldon H.; King, Douglas M. - In: Journal of Gambling Business and Economics 3 (2009) 2, pp. 63-87

A number of methods have been proposed for predicting game winners in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) annual men's college basketball championship tournament. Since 1985, more than 70% of the teams in the fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds of the tournament have been...

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Association of educational level and child sex ratio in rural and urban India

Inchani, Lisa; Lai, Dejian - In: Social Indicators Research 86 (2008) 1, pp. 69-81

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APPLICATION OF THE EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD METHOD IN PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL

He, Bin - 2007

In survival analysis, proportional hazards model is the most commonly used and the Cox model is the most popular. These models are developed to facilitate statistical analysis frequently encountered in medical research or reliability studies. In analyzing real data sets, checking the validity of...

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Alternative validation strategies : developing new and leveraging existing validity evidence

MacPhail, S. Morton (contributor) - 2007 - 1. ed., 1. print.

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