Discrete choice
Stated preferences of doctors for choosing a job in rural areas of Peru: a discrete choice experiment.
... Methods and Findings: A labelled discrete choice experiment (DCE) was performed in Ayacucho, an underserved department of Peru. Preferences were assessed for three locations: rural community, Ayacucho city ...
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Practice location of physicians: a discrete choice model approach
... a discrete choice model based on a multinomial logit specification that assess the physician’s first choice of practice location in developing ...
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Decision-Making Criteria among National Policymakers in Five Countries: A Discrete Choice Experiment Eliciting Relative Preferences for Equity and Efficiency
... Background: Worldwide, there is a need for formalization of the pri- ority setting processes in health. Recent research has used the term multicriteria decision analysis for methods that systematically include ...
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Job preferences of nurses and midwives for taking up a rural job in Peru: a discrete choice experiment.
... A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to evaluate the job preferences of nurses and midwives currently working on a short-term contract in the public sector in Ayacucho, ...
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Have preferences of girls changed almost 3 years after the much debated start of the HPV vaccination program in The Netherlands? A discrete choice experiment.
... indicating the relative weight individuals place on a certain attribute (level). The unobserved component, E, is assumed to be independently and identically (IID) extreme value type 1 (EV1) distributed. In addition to ...
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College entry exams: a dynamic discrete choice model
... school choice (Lai, Sadoulet and de Janvry, 2009) and the Boston mechanisms using Chinese data (He, 2009) or the GS mechanism using US data (Abdulkadiro¼glu, Pathak and Roth, ...
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Addressing Health Workforce Distribution Concerns: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Develop Rural Retention Strategies in Cameroon
... A systematic review by Mandeville et al. (25) of DCEs to inform health work policy was recently conducted and identified the importance across similar studies of rural allowances/bonuses and opportunities for further ...
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Joint Analysis of the Discount Factor and Payoff Parameters in Dynamic Discrete Choice Games
... the choice of the estimation methodology can be crucial for practical analysis of dynamic ...the choice probabilities; particularly as proposed by Pesendorfer and Schmidt-Dengler ...
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Sandra Vergara Cardozo1 ; Bryan Frederick John Manly2 ; Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias3
... of discrete choice models (DCM) is suggested as an approximation to estimate the RSF when the choice of animal or groups of animals involves different sets of available resource ...the choice ...
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Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) resource selection in the Northern Bering Sea.
... Discrete choice models were estimated using a stratified Cox proportional hazards model routine as outlined in Manly et ...a choice set of 2 km62 km grid cells available for selection around the ...
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MARKOV GRAPHS OF ONE–DIMENSIONAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR DISCRETE ANALOGUES AND THEIR DISCRETE ANALOGUES
... different labelled Markov graphs of maps for every n–vertex tree. Obviously, the number of non–isomorphic discrete Markov graphs on a given n–vertex tree is much harder to compute (it will be different for ...
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A background-priority discrete boundary triangulation method
... Volume models consist of three-dimensional arrays of measured or computed values. Isosurfacing and other segmentation techniques are often applied to select ob- ject boundaries within a volume, which may then be ...
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A Robust Digital Watermarking with Mixed Transform Technique for Digital Image
... the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) were joined to cope with noise problem and enhance perceptual transparency of watermarking ...
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DWT Coefficients Estimation in Images with Missing Samples
... Images with missing samples are considered as a set of columns and/or rows with missing samples, i.e. many one dimensional signals. The existing pixels are treated as non- uniformly distributed samples of the signal. Our ...
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Rational Choice with Categories
... The choice function we characterize simply identifies the best alternatives from each category and is silent about which factors influence the decision of which category to choose from on a given ...final ...
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Discrete squeezed states for finite-dimensional spaces
... Such discrete extensions are then ap- plied to the context of quantum tomography and quantum information theory with the aim of enlarging our knowledge on the quantum interference effects in a discrete ...
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Chapter 0 Discrete Time Dynamic Programming
... A similar two-step argument can be used to show under certain conditions the value function is strictly concave, which is a useful result in some applications because it could be used to[r] ...
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Punctual State Computation Using Discrete Modeling
... The known computation algorithms based on the discrete modeling allow the sequential computation, step by step, along the whole analysis time, of the state vector or output vector directly [4,9]. In this paper, ...
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Hyponormal differential operators with discrete spectrum
... We know that, all normal extensions and discrete spectrum of the minimal opera- tor generated by a linear differential-operator expression for the first-order in L 2 has been described i[r] ...
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Combining models in discrete discriminant analysis
... conducting Discrete Discriminant Analysis, alternative models provide different levels of predictive accuracy which has encouraged the research in combined ...two Discrete Discriminant Analysis models: the ...
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