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Modeling House Prices using Multilevel Structured Additive Regression
Brunauer, Wolfgang; Lang, Stefan; Umlauf, Nikolaus - 2010
This paper analyzes house price data belonging to three hierarchical levels of spatial units. House selling prices with associated individual attributes (the elementary level-1) are grouped within municipalities (level-2), which form districts (level-3), which are themselves nested in counties...
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Applications of Multilevel Structured Additive Regression Models to Insurance Data
Lang, Stefan; Umlauf, Nikolaus - 2010
Models with structured additive predictor provide a very broad and rich framework for complex regression modeling. They can deal simultaneously with nonlinear covariate effects and time trends, unit- or cluster specific heterogeneity, spatial heterogeneity and complex interactions between...
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R package hmi: A convenient tool for hierarchical multiple imputation and beyond
Speidel, Matthias; Drechsler, Jörg; Jolani, Shahab - 2018
Applications of multiple imputation have long outgrown the traditional context of dealing with item nonresponse in cross-sectional datasets. Nowadays multiple imputation is also applied to impute missing values in hierarchical datasets, address confidentiality concerns, combine data from...
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Mixed methods to assess the use of rare illicit psychoactive substances: a case study
Janssen, Eric; Vuolo, Mike; Gérome, Clément; … - In: Epidemiologic Methods 10 (2021) 1
Abstract This article presents original mixed method research to describe the use of rare illicit psychoactive substances, with special emphasis on crack cocaine in France. We first introduce a unique monitoring system committed to the observation of hard-to-reach populations. Qualitative...
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Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility
Büchel, Felix; van Ham, Maarten - 2002
For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labour market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyse how macro-level opportunities (regional labour market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the...
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Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2011
Meta-analytic methods have been widely applied to education, medicine, and the social sciences. Much of meta-analytic data are hierarchically structured since effect size estimates are nested within studies, and in turn studies can be nested within level-3 units such as laboratories or...
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Interracial Marriage in the U.S. in 2006
Poston, Dudley L. (contributor) - 2009
levels below other types of interracial/interethnic unions. Prior research has centered largely on individual-level factors … associated with the formation of such unions, culminating in three not entirely consistent micro-level theories: status …-level characteristics, which I argue should have an independent effect on the incidence of these unions. My dissertation explores these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464857
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Keeping up with the Novaks? Income distribution as a determinant of household debt in CESEE
Hake, Mariya; Poyntner, Philipp - 2020
This paper constitutes an initial attempt to shed light on the role of income distribution in household debt and financial market access in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). Using household-level data from the OeNB's Euro Survey for the period 2009-2018, we address the question...
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Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities
Roll, Yoav; Semyonov, Moshe; Mandel, Hadas - 2022
Despite the steady increase in the number of women who join the labor force, there are still substantial cross-country variations in both women's labor force participation and gender-linked occupational inequality. Utilizing micro-data from 47 countries (circa 2013) obtained from the Luxembourg...
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Statistical risk analysis for real estate collateral valuation using Bayesian distributional and quantile regression
Razen, Alexander; Brunauer, Wolgang; Klein, Nadja; … - 2014
The Basel II framework strictly defines the conditions under which financial institutions are authorized to accept real estate as collateral in order to decrease their credit risk. A widely used concept for its valuation is the hedonic approach. It assumes, that a property can be characterized...
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