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Making sense of financial education
Klein, Valerie - 2007
A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation
Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011
The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441796
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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises
Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999
Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...
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Technology trends in econometric energy models: Ignorance or information
Boyd, G.; Kokkelenberg, E.; Ross, M. - 2008
Simple time trend variables in factor demand models can be statistically powerful variables, but may tell the researcher very little. Even more complex specification of technical change, e.g. factor biased, are still the economentrician's measure of ignorance'' about the shifts that occur in the...
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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate
Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435644
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Minimum risk trigger indices
Tingey, F.H. - 2008
A viable safeguards system includes among other things the development and use of indices which trigger various courses of action. The usual limit of error calculation provides such an index. The classical approach is one of constructing tests which, under certain assumptions, make the...
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Status of European appliance standards
Turiel, I.; Lebot, B. - 2008
The European Community (EC) recently commissioned a study of the impact of potential appliance standards on electricity consumption in the twelve EC nations. This study looks at refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. The impact of minimum efficiency standards...
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[National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Application] Final technical report
Scott T. Weidman - 2009
advice on how best to apply the tools of mathematics, statistics, operations research, financial engineering, computational …
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Forecasting urban highway travel for year 2005
Miaou, Shaw-Pin; Rathi, A.K.; Southworth, F.; Greene, D.L. - 2008
As part of a study aimed at estimating suburban highway needs for year 2005, models were developed for forecasting daily vehicle miles of travel (DVMT) for urban areas and its distribution by highway functional class, urban location, and urban area size. A regression model combining both time...
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Expert systems and the CPI product substitution review: A needs analysis for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arrowood, L.F.; Tonn, B.E. - 2008
This report presents recommendations relative to the use of expert systems and machine learning techniques by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to substantially automate product substitution decisions associated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Thirteen commercially available, PC-based...
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