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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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Open access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage relative to the traditional subscription …-based journal publishing. A simple, cost effective remedy to this inequity is proposed that would put open access publishing on a … path to become a sustainable, efficient system, allowing the two journal publishing systems to compete on a more level …
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Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognising some of the benefits of such approaches this paper argues that researchers should counterbalance this through ‘thinking...
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estimates of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the methodology and database used for estimation. It extensively reviews the …
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explains the methodology followed. Second, the firm’s entry strategy is discussed to highlight how the Japanese view business …
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that the standard methodology used will almost invariably lead to biased elasticity estimates, and proposes an alternative … methodology which avoids this problem. [WP] …
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In this paper, a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts is illustrated. In India, exam …
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Singapore business within a holistic framework using case study methodology. Following the Introduction in Section 1, Section 2 … turn of the millennium. Section 3 provides an outline of the scope, methodology and rationale of this study. Section 4 … of the methodology adopted in the study and possible areas for further research are also outlined. The Appendices contain …
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the concepts through an interactive methodology. Each life skill has been explained using everyday examples which will …
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It is suggested that there are several aspects of the social exclusion approach that are valuable in both the UK and developing country contexts. A summary of research on the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage drawing especially from work on the UK birth cohorts of 1958 and 1970....
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