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prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. In … Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm, a standard tool in statistics, to compute the probability that each two records …
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nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and …
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and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to … administrative tax and program data. Of the 3.6 million non-homeless households with survey-reported cash income below $2/person …
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Police use of force – particularly lethal force – is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...
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statistics from surveys with non-response, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics seasonally adjusts employment statistics … statistics as point estimates, without accompanying measures of error. Users of the statistics may incorrectly view them as error … statistics by communicating uncertainty to the public. Sampling error can be measured using established statistical principles …
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This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US Civil War. The sample contains extensive...
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This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better
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Globalisation presents significant statistical challenges, particularly for small and open economies in terms of measuring macroeconomic level and growth indicators and communicating the results in a meaningful way. In the aftermath of the so-called “Irish case”, Eurostat with its partners...
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emerged in statistics and computer science may prove useful in economics …
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Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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