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A house price index defined in the potential outcomes framework

Longford, Nicholas - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Current methods for constructing house price indices are based on comparisons of sale prices of residential properties sold two or more times and on regression of the sale prices on the attributes of the properties and of their locations. The two methods have well recognised deficiencies,...

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Small-area estimation with spatial similarity

Longford, Nicholas - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

A class of composite estimators of small area quantities that exploit spatial (distancerelated) similarity is derived. It is based on a distribution-free model for the areas, but the estimators are aimed to have optimal design-based properties. Composition is applied also to estimate some of the...

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A sharp concentration inequality with applications

Boucheron, Stéphane; Lugosi, Gábor; Massart, Pascal - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

We present a new general concentration-of-measure inequality and illustrate its power by applications in random combinatorics. The results find direct applications in some problems of learning theory.

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Almost sure testability of classes of densities

Devroye, Luc; Lugosi, Gábor - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

Let a class $\F$ of densities be given. We draw an i.i.d.\ sample from a density $f$ which may or may not be in $\F$. After every $n$, one must make a guess whether $f \in \F$ or not. A class is almost surely testable if there exists such a testing sequence such that for any $f$, we make...

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Worst-case bounds for the logarithmic loss of predictors

Bianchi, Nicolò Cesa; Lugosi, Gábor - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

We investigate on-line prediction of individual sequences. Given a class of predictors, the goal is to predict as well as the best predictor in the class, where the loss is measured by the self information (logarithmic) loss function. The excess loss (regret) is closely related to the redundancy...

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The provision of relative performance feedback information: An experimental analysis of performance and happiness

Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

This paper studies the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on individual performance and on … perform a real effort task and when receiving feedback, they are asked to rate their happiness, arousal and feeling of … performance in the session. Performance is 17 percent higher when relative performance feedback is provided. Furthermore, although …

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The importance of relative performance feedback information: Evidence from a natural experiment using high school students

Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance, when individuals are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078609