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Statistics and IQ in Developing Countries: A Note

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Azia-Dimbu, … - 2015

statistics in developing countries and (ii) an evolving stream of literature on knowledge economy. We have established a positive …

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On the accuracy of trade and GDP statistics in Africa: Errors of commission and omission

Jerven, Morten - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 45-52

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From Cleantech to Cleanweb – The Finnish Cleantech Space in Transition

Kotiranta, Annu; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Adriaens, Peter - 2015

Now that the worst of the growing pains have been subdued, cleantech has made a respectable comeback onto the global agenda of firms, investors and economic developers alike. One might say it is bigger than ever, with a constantly proliferating range of cleantech companies and business models....

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Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009: A statistical compendium

Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - 2011

and South Africa. This latest edition of global wine statistics therefore not only updates data to 2009 and revises past …

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Spline methods for extracting interest rate curves from coupon bond prices

Waggoner, Daniel F. - 1997

Cubic splines have long been used to extract the discount, yield, and forward rate curves from coupon bond data. McCulloch used regression splines to estimate the discount function, and, more recently, Fisher, Nychka, and Zervos used smoothed splines, with the roughness penalty selected by...

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Methodological challenges and solutions for leadership researchers

Hanges, Paul J.; Shteynberg, Gary - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 18 (2004) 3, pp. 346-358

Leadership scholars are faced with pressing methodological issues that challenge our current scholarship. In this paper, we discuss methodological concerns such as multilevel hypothesis testing, construct validity of group-level scales, sampling countries in cross-cultural research, self-report...

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Estimating rationality in economics: A history of statistical methods in experimental economics

Vallois, Nicolas; Jullien, Dorian - 2018

"experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental … techniques. We also highlight that, despite the decisive role played by statistics in the way EE estimate the rationality of … individuals or markets, statistics are still considered as involving non-methodological issues, i.e., as involving only purely …

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Construction and Import of Ethnic Categorisations: Allochthones in The Netherlands and Belgium

Jacobs, Dirk; Rea, Andrea - 2006

Schematically one can distinguish two traditions related to ethnic statistics in Europe. In France, Germany and most …

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Understanding trade in digitized ideas: What are the statistical challenges?

Magdeleine, Joscelyn; Maurer, Andreas - 2016

have blurred the way international transactions can be recorded and how this can be transformed into relevant statistics … empirical statistical picture and assess the quality of existing statistics and the extent to which important trade in digitized …

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Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Statistician, economist, and a European intellectual

Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Vogt, Annette B. - 2014

, stochastics, mathematical statistics and radiology, today we would call him a cross disciplinary scientist. With his clear views …

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