This paper introduces an extension of the p-median problem and its application to clustering, in which the distance/dissimilarity function between units is calculated as the distance sum on the q most important variables. These variables are to be chosen from a set of m elements, so a new...

Drawing on Tinto’s dropout intentions model (1975), Bean’s socialization model (1985), Astin’s involvement theory (1999), and the service marketing literature, this research presents a conceptual framework for analyzing students’ satisfaction, perceived learning outcomes, and dropout...

In this paper we study the goodness-of-fit test introduced by Fortiana and Grané (2003) and Grané (2012), in the context of randomly censored data. We construct a new test statistic undergeneral right-censoring, i.e., with unknown censoring distribution, and prove its asymptoticproperties....

Firms face a continuous process of technological and environmental changes that implies making managerial decisions in a dynamic context. However, costs and other constraints prevent firms from making instant adjustments towards optimal conditions and may cause inefficiency to be persistent in...

Measuring dependence is a basic question when dealing with functional observations. The usual correlation for curves is not robust. Kendall's coefficient is a natural description of dependence between finite dimensional random variables. We extend this concept to functional observations. Given a...

We propose a new type of values for cooperative TU-games, which we call pyramidal values. Assuming that the grand coalition is sequentially formed, and all orderings are equally likely, we define a pyramidal value to be any expected payoff in which the entrant player receives a salary and the...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become a very popular technique in the machinelearningfield for classification problems. It was originally proposed for classification of twoclasses. Various multiclass models with a single objective have been proposed mostly based ontwo families of methods:...