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generated by aggregation ratherthan derived from stable individual preferences. …
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There have been significant changes in consumer demand at the retail counter, such as health, convenience, palatability preferences, and safety concerns. Branded programs offer a means for satisfying consumer demand for high quality and differentiated beef products. To help answer the question...
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The objective of this study is twofold: first, to determine if, in the long run, healthconcerns affect the retail demand for beef in the United States via changes in consumerdietary preferences, and second, to establish if media coverage of populardiets (media frenzy) causes the change in retail...
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frequencies. The issue of temporal aggregation is examined in two ways. We initially show that those changes do not seem to have … aggregation on those properties; therefore, the aggregation of economic flows into annual figures is once more found to involve … different frequencies is then investigated from analytical and empirical standpoints. Time aggregation is found to reduce the …
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Model induction from relational data requires aggregation of values ofattributes of related entities. This paper makes … needed to learn these concepts. (2) Expanding onelevel of the hierarchy, it introduces new aggregation operators thatmodel … byclass. (3) It demonstrates empirically on a noisy business domain thatmore-complex aggregation methods can increase …
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This paper explores the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment where guarantees are only provided at an aggregate level. The focus is on understanding which traffic parameters are responsible for inducing possible deviations and to what...
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still remains significant at high levels of aggregation. Because the bias rises with disaggregation, findings of …
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deterministic relationsare oftentimes observed among variables in high dimensional data. Aggregation methods areproposed as one … aggregated variables. Aggregation methods also arehelpful to address the issue of how to incorporate a large information set into … economy of parameters in empirical models. However, actual aggregation requires legitimateclassifications for interpretable …
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that can be carried out within the framework. - Design, analysis and implementation of an aggregation-based service …
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It is investigated whether euro area variables can be forecast better based on synthetic time series for the pre-euro period or by using just data from Germany for the pre-euro period. Our forecast comparison is based on quarterly data for the period 1970Q1-2003Q4 for 10 macroeconomic variables....
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