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This paper develops a new framework for empirical modelling of consumer demand with particular reference to products that are differentiated with respect to quality and location attributes. The point of departure is a flexible representation of the distribution of product attributes and consumer...
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considered as learning mechanisms used by voters to perform a classification of the incumbent in order to distinguish … a neural network, namely a perceptron, can resolve that problem of classification. This is done by considering a model …
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lemma is outlined and an application of such a projection on latent factors in a classification example is given. …
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Despite its age, the Linear Discriminant Analysis performs well even in situations where the underlying premises like normally distributed data with constant covariance matrices over all classes are not met. It is, however, a global technique that does not regard the nature of an individual...
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strategies are characterized and a classification of European social transfer systems is introduced. Subsequently, the … are heavily influenced by the adopted strategy mix. …
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This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
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of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes …
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and we investigate a general strategy which exploits the knowledge of such features. The results of the strategy are a … basis to develop insurance tariffs. The strategy is applied to a data set from motor vehicle insurance companies. We use a …
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existing research frameworks, leading to a classification framework that can help structuring this emerging field. …
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In this paper, we review existing food and nutrition security indicators, discuss some of their advantages and disadvantages, and finally classify them and describe their relationships and overlaps. In order to achieve this, the paper makes reference to the existing definitions of food and...
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