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Taste Tests: Changing the Rules to Improve the Game
Givon, Moshe - In: Marketing Science 8 (1989) 3, pp. 281-290
primary factor detracting from the reliability of taste tests is guessing by subjects; it confounds true discrimination and … be some increase in respondent's task difficulty, but this increase is overshadowed by the increased reliability of the …
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Note—Conjoint Reliability Measures
Wittink, Dick R.; Reibstein, David J.; Boulding, William; … - In: Marketing Science 8 (1989) 4, pp. 371-374
Researchers have used a variety of measures for the assessment of conjoint analysis reliability. In this note we …
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An Experiment in the Economic Consequences of Additional Disclosure: The Case of the Fair Value of Unlisted Equity Investments
Ding, Yuan; Jeanjean, Thomas; Lesage, Cédric; Stolowy, … - HAL - 2009
liquidity, perception of information reliability and relevance. We use an experimental design: 181 MBA students are asked to …
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Life expectancy of a bathtub shaped failure distribution
Bebbington, Mark; Lai, Chin-Diew; Zitikis, Ričardas - In: Statistical Papers 51 (2010) 3, pp. 599-612
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Search boundaries of the truncated discrete sequential test
Michlin, Y. H.; Grabarnik, G. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 37 (2010) 5, pp. 707-724
The theme of this paper is improved planning of binomial sequential probability ratio tests in the context of comparison of two objects as to their time between failures or to failure, assumed to be exponentially distributed. The authors' earlier works established that the probabilities of I-...
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The percentile residual life up to time t0: ordering and aging properties
Franco-Pereira, Alba M.; Lillo, Rosa E.; Romo, Juan - Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad Carlos III de … - 2010
Reliability Theory is described. Finally, we present some characterization results of the decreasing percentile residual life up …
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User inequity implications of road network vulnerability
Jenelius, Erik - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 2 (2010) 3, pp. 57-73
An important purpose of the road transport system is to allow people to commute in efficient and reliable ways. For various undesired reasons, however, link capacities are sometimes reduced or links are closed completely. To assess and reduce the risk of such events, a key issue is to identify...
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“It Takes All Kinds”: A Simulation Modeling Perspective on Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Development Projects
Dalle, Jean-Michel; David, Paul A. - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007
This paper presents a stochastic simulation model to study implications of the mechanisms by which individual software developers’ efforts are allocated within large and complex open source software projects. It illuminates the role of different forms of “motivations-at-the-margin” in the...
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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability
Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is a tradeoff between the amount of irrigated area and the reliability …
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The process of basic training, applied training, maintaining the performance of an observer
Losada, José; Manolov, Rumen - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 49 (2015) 1, pp. 339-347
evaluates intra- and inter-observer reliability. Several authors, including Arias et al. (Apunts, 4:40–45, <CitationRef … systems. The purpose of this subsequent training is to maintain acceptable levels of observer reliability. Various strategies … can be used to this end, including providing feedback about those categories associated with a good reliability index, or …
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