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Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2003

of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes … developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2003

of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes … reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

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Stock picking via nonsymmetrically pruned binary decision trees

Andriyashin, Anton - 2008

researchers. In this study stock picking is implemented via binary classification trees. Optimal tree size is believed to be the …

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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data

Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

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Improving accuracy of students' final grade prediction model using optimal equal width binning and synthetic minority over-sampling technique

Jishan, Syed; Rashu, Raisul; Haque, Naheena; Rahman, … - In: Decision Analytics 2 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25

There is a perpetual elevation in demand for higher education in the last decade all over the world; therefore, the need for improving the education system is imminent. Educational data mining is a newly-visible area in the field of data mining and it can be applied to better understanding the...

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Developing a prediction model for customer churn from electronic banking services using data mining

Keramati, Abbas; Ghaneei, Hajar; Mirmohammadi, Seyed … - In: Financial Innovation 2 (2016) 10, pp. 1-13

Background: Given the importance of customers as the most valuable assets of organizations, customer retention seems to be an essential, basic requirement for any organization. Banks are no exception to this rule. The competitive atmosphere within which electronic banking services are provided...

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Machine Learning in der amtlichen Statistik – Ergebnisse und Bewertung eines internationalen Projekts

Dumpert, Florian - In: WISTA – Wirtschaft und Statistik 73 (2021) 4, pp. 53-63

Die High-Level-Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics der Wirtschaftskommission der Vereinten Nationen für Europa hatte für die Jahre 2019 und 2020 ein Machine-Learning-Projekt initiiert. Das Projekt ermöglichte die Durchführung von Pilotstudien, um den Mehrwert maschinellen...

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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)

Renard, Léa - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 73 (2021) Suppl 1, pp. 169-194

Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen....

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Importance Assessment of Correlated Predictors in Business Cycles Classification

Enache, Daniel; Weihs, Claus - 2004

?multipliers?, is not applicable in standard regression or classification models. The goal of this paper is to develop a procedure … to obtain such measures of importance for classification methods and to apply them to models for the classification of …

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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

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