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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions
Hanson, D.A. - 2008
This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436272
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Accident Conditions versus Regulatory Test for NRC-Approved UF6 Packages
MILLS, G. SCOTT; AMMERMAN, DOUGLAS J.; LOPEZ, CARLOS - 2008
impact or fire is small. Moreover, given that an accident has occurred, exposure to water by fire-fighting, heavy rain or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436683
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Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?
Brodeur, Abel; Nield, Kerry - 2016
In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494358
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Rainy Day Politics - An Instrumental Variables Approach to the Effect of Parties on Political Outcomes
Lind, Jo Thori - 2014
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost …. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral … outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398636
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The partisan effects of voter turnout: How conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015
deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501783
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A Dual Monte Carlo Approach to Estimate Model Uncertainty and its Application to the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model.
Wei, Haiyan; Nearing, Mark A.; Stone, Jeffry J.; … - 2008
Natural resources models serve as important tools to support decision making by predicting environmental indicators. All model predictions have uncertainty associated with them. Model predictive uncertainty, often expressed as the confidence interval around a model prediction value, may serve as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429462
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Reductions in Seasonal Climate Forecast Dependability as a Result of Downscaling.
Schneider, J.M.; Garbrecht, J.D. - 2008
This investigation addresses a practical question from an agricultural planning and management perspective: are the NOAA/CPC seasonal climate forecasts skillful enough to retain utility after they have been downscaled to field and daily scales for use in crop models to predict impacts on crop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429500
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Rainy day politics : an instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes
Lind, Jo Thori - 2014
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost …. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral … outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383810
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Has Uber made it easier to get a ride in the rain?
Brodeur, Abel; Nield, Kerry - 2016
In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486475
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266