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Bayesian Non- and Semi-parametric Methods and Applications

Rossi, Peter E. - Princeton University Press

This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in … arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes available, a natural desire to provide methods that relax these … the structure in the data while retaining desirable smoothing properties. Non-Bayesian non-parametric methods often …

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Methodological support environmental audit in the agricultural sector

Kocherga, M. - In: Balanced Nature Using 7 (2013) 1, pp. 19-25

objectives and principles of environmental auditing in the agricultural domain. The proposed system of methods and procedures for …

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Once you have a hammer… - Report from the 2nd Practitioners’ Meeting within the European Project PACITA, Workshop on TA Methods. Sofia, Bulgaria, April 17-19, 2013

Seitz, Stefanie; Maia, Maria João; Velloso, Gabriel - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2013-11), pp. 81-83

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Can we trust the data? Methodological experiences with forest product valuation in lowland Bolivia

Uberhuaga, Patricia del Carmen; Olsen, Carsten Smith - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 42

Forest products are important to rural households across virtually all forest types in developing countries. There are, however, only few comprehensive and systematic efforts at valuing these products and determining their absolute and relative economic importance to rural households. Having...

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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2015

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...

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Migration in Participatory Poverty Assessments: A Review

Azcona, Ginette - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper reviews the treatment of migration in Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs), conducted in 14 different countries. The analysis suggests that for the very poor, migration is most often rural to rural and rural to urban and not across borders. The drivers of migration are context...

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Justice Sociale: Hayek et Sen Face à Rawls. Une Proximité Méthodologique Inattendue

Gamel, Claude - 2013

Through their methods for studying social justice, Rawls, Hayek and Sen are each situated on the summit of a triangle … from so near methods designs a paradox, which has still to be confirmed by further studies (5). …

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Methods of Regulation of the Domestic Labour Market

Anatolijovich, Yermolenko Olexij - In: Business Inform (2013) 7, pp. 23-28

The article analyses existing methods of state regulation of the labour market. It justifies a necessity of exercising … consideration of approaches with respect to methods of regulation of the labour market and determination of their effectiveness …. After conducting the study of existing methods the article offers the following conclusions: availability of a big variety …

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Methods of Planning Expenditures of the Main Type of Activity of an Industrial Enterprise

Yegorkina Tatyana A. - In: Business Inform (2013) 7, pp. 247-252

development of enterprises depend on this basic criteria. The article develops methods of planning expenditures of the main type …

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UN ANÁLISIS DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN ESPAÑA SOBRE LOS ASPECTOS ÉTICOS, SOCIALES Y MEDIOAMBIENTALES: UNA VISIÓN DE LA SITUACIÓN ACTUAL Y PERSPECTIVAS / ETHICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENT...

Moreno, Pajuelo; Luisa, Maria - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 2, pp. 55-78

En este estudio se analizan las investigaciones sobre los aspectos éticos, sociales y medioambientales publicadas en las revistas españolas en el período 2004-2012. Las principales áreas de ocupación de los investigadores españoles son el análisis de las prácticas nacionales, la...

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