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deprive the latter of contributing to their representative variables or canonical variates. Our proposed Representation … solution. By a proper choice of λ, one can avoid hijacking of the representation issue of two datasets by a lone couple of …
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representation to weakly correlated variables also. The method has been applied to data of 125 countries and the HDI so constructed …
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The neoclassical consumer maximizes utility and makes choices by completely preordering the feasible alternatives and weighing when indifferent. The consumer studied in this paper chooses by weighing when indifferent and also when indecisive, without necessarily preordering the alternatives or...
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only weakly informative of representation. For example, if the top decile cutoff is lower for minority than majority … the under-representation. In this paper, we propose a direct measure of the representation of a population subgroup, which … representation index is easily generalised to condition on characteristics (such as age, education, etc). Further, it generalizes …
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representation to the poorly correlated variables, it is elitist. The PCA index is often elitist, particularly for an under … alleviate the representation of poorly correlated variables for some small reduction in the overall explanatory power (vis …-à-vis the PCA index). These indices are inclusive in nature, caring for the representation of the poorly correlated variables …
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This paper attempts to identify the areas that are still lagging behind other parts of the country in terms of literacy levels and are unable to play their role in the velopment of human capital of the country. The analyses indicate that more than 75 per cent of the districts in the country are...
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SMEs have a major contribution to economic growth and job creation. In a dynamic world, marked by very rapid technological and economic changes, they must adapt and seek new ways to improve business. Social Media seems to provide tools to improve the work, especially on the sales and marketing....
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A distinctive feature of recent revolutions was the key role of social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). In a simple model we assume that while social media allow to observe all previous decisions, mass media only give aggregate information about the state of a revolt. We show, first,...
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This paper proposes a measure of real-time inflation expectations based on metadata, i.e., data about data, constructed from internet search queries performed on the search engine Google. The forecasting performance of the Google Inflation Search Index (GISI) is assessed relative to 37 other...
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The paper discusses opportunities to utilize the series of micro-blogs as provided by the Twitter in observation of opinion dynamics. The spontaneity of tweets is more, as the service is attached more to the mobile communications. The extraction of information in the series of tweets is...
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