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Residual Diagnostic Methods for Bayesian Structural Equation Models

Stokes-Riner, Abbie; Thurston, Sally W.

model assumptions. Individual-level residuals are easy to estimate in the Bayesian SEM and are used to dene posterior … predictive checks for model assumptions. The empirical cumulative distribution function of the residuals is used to test the … assumption that the residual error is normally distributed. Cumulative sums of the residuals are used to check the assumption …

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Strategies for Dealing with Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship Research

Davidsson, Per - 2007

Business ventures are started by individuals and teams with very different backgrounds and motivations, pursuing business ideas of very variable inherent quality in environments that also show tremendous variability. As a result it is difficult to arrive at broadly valid generalizations, and...

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Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE): design, data collection and descriptive results

Davidsson, Per; Steffens, Paul R.; Gordon, Scott R. - 2011

The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) is a research programme that aims to uncover the factors that initiate, hinder and facilitate the process of emergence of new economic activities and organizations. It is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship is one of...

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Intervention research in highly unstable environments

Buckwalter, Kathleen; Grey, M.; Bowers, B.; McCarthy, … - 2009

This article highlights issues and presents strategies for conducting intervention research in highly unstable environments such as schools, critical care units, and long-term care facilities. The authors draw on their own experiences to discuss the challenges that may be encountered in highly...

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Intervention research in highly unstable environments

Buckwalter, Kathleen; Grey, M.; Bowers, B.; McCarthy, … - 2009

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Estimating the capacity for improvement in risk prediction with a marker

Gu, Wen; Pepe, Margaret S. - 2009

Consider a set of baseline predictors X to predict a binary outcome D and let Y be a novel marker or predictor. This paper is concerned with evaluating the performance of the augmented risk model P(D = 1|Y,X) compared with the baseline model P(D = 1|X). The diagnostic likelihood ratio, DLRX(y),...

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Corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in transitional countries – evidence from Chinese listed firms

Lin, Teng - 2011

The objective of this thesis is to investigate whether the corporate governance practices adopted by Chinese listed firms are associated with the quality of earnings information. Based on a review of agency and institutional theory, this study develops hypotheses that predict the monitoring...

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The role of the audit committee and institutional investors in constraining earnings management : evidence from Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong

Lin, Philip Teng; Hutchinson, Marion R.; Percy, Majella - 2009

Using data from 2004 to 2008, we find that an audit committee is an important monitoring mechanism as audit committee independence, expertise and size are associated with reduced levels of abnormal accruals, our measure of earnings management. This study also attempts to discern when the...

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The Use of Loan Loss Provisions for Earnings, Capital Management and Signalling by Australian Banks

Anandarajan, Asokan; Hasan, Iftekhar; McCarthy, Cornelia - 2005

This research is motivated by the fact that there is a paucity of research on the earnings management practices of banks in Australia. Research on the practices of North American, European and Asian banks provided conflicting evidence. In this study, we examine whether Australian banks engage in...

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Equilibrium Earnings Management, Incentive Contracts, and Accounting Standards

Liang, Pierre Jinghong - 2003

In this paper, we model earnings management as a consequence of the interaction among self-interested economic agents -- namely, the managers, the shareholders, and the regulators. In our model, a manager controls a stochastic production technology and makes periodic accounting reports about his...

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