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The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...
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We introduce the concept of a triad census of a digraph arid show how it can be used to enumerate various types of subgraph configurations. We give the basic probabilities needed for computing means and variances for a triad census under the U-MAN distribution for digraphs. These concepts are...
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Students in various disciplines-from law and government to business and health policy-need to understand several quantitative aspects of finance (such as the capital asset pricing model or financial options) and policy analysis (e.g., assessing the weight of probabilistic evidence) but often...
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-- Part 3. Application to the Official Statistics or Public Policy using RPPI -- Chapter 6 Measuring the Services of Durables …
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A country's statistical capacity takes an indispensable part in its development. We offer a comprehensive comparison between the World Bank's Statistical Performance Indicators and Index (SPI) and its predecessor, the Statistical Capacity Index (SCI) regarding different conceptual and empirical...
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Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. We offer the first review study that fills this gap, paying particular attention to data and practical measurement challenges. We compare...
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Chapter 1: The Basics of Statistics -- Chapter 2: The Normal Curve -- Chapter 3: Probability and Percentages and Their …Examine select retail business scenarios to learn basic mathematics, as well as probability and statistics required to … is a step-by-step guide to understanding and managing the mechanics of markups, markdowns, and basic statistics, math and …
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