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Non-parametric Approaches to Education and Health Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries
... We address the efficiency of expenditure in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas where ...
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Public Services Efficiency Provision in Italian Regions: a Non-Parametric Analysis
... apply non- parametric analysis to public spending efficiency in Belgian municipalities, while Afonso e Fernandes (2003) also use a non-parametric approach for municipalities in the region of ...
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Necessary Auxiliary Background for Efficient Use of an Existing Computer Program of Non-parametric Fitting of Nonlinear Equations
... A non-parametric method of fitting nonlinear multiparametric equations to experimental data, along with a suitable computer program, has been presented in details and analyzed statistically ...the ...
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Credit scoring: comparison of non‐parametric techniques against logistic regression
... Over the past decades, financial institutions have been giving increased importance to credit risk management as a critical tool to control their profitability. More than ever, it became crucial for these institutions to ...
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A Java program for non-parametric statistic comparison of community structure
... The structure of community refers to species composition, population size, etc., which is formed by environment/climate conditions, and dynamic interspecific/intraspecific interactions (Damgaard, 2011; Lüi, 2011; Rai, ...
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Public Tertiary Education Expenditure in Portugal: a Non-Parametric Efficiency Analysis
... a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities for ...using non- parametric ...
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Prediction of dementia patients: A comparative approach using parametric vs. non parametric classifiers
... of non parametric data mining and machine learning classifiers, Fisher’s Linear Discrimi- nant Analysis stands up as a simple, efficient and time-proof ...
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An exhaustive, non-euclidean, non-parametric data mining tool for unraveling the complexity of biological systems--novel insights into malaria.
... novel non-parametric, non-euclidean data mining tool, HyperCube H, to explore exhaustively a complex epidemiological malaria data set by searching for over density of events in m-dimensional ...and ...
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Comparison of two atmospheric sampling methodologies with non-parametric statistical tools.
... WITH NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL ...requiring non-parametric methods, recommended for the handling of data which may not be normally ...
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Measuring efficiency and frontier shift in Portuguese hospital industry: a non-parametric approach
... the non-parametric approach, such data envelopment analysis ...or parametric approach for calculating the efficiency frontier, such as Eakin et ...
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Non-parametric indexes in selecting hybrids of chili pepper
... On Solanaceae, the use of hybrids in seed market has been consolidated in recent decades, especially for sweet pepper and tomato crops. However, other crops such as chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) are still neglected by ...
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Non-parametric Fitting of Nonlinear Equations to Experi- mental Data without Use of Initial Guessing: A Basic Computer Program
... a non-parametric method of fitting nonlinear multiparametric equations to experimental data, the corresponding computer program, and its statistical ...
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Non-parametric stability analyses of dough properties in wheat
... Literature has unveiled that a paper has not been published yet on using non-parametric stability statistics (NPSSs) for evaluating genotypic stability in dough properties of wheat. Accordingly, the effects ...
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Parametric and non-parametric indexes applied in the selection of sour passion fruit progenies
... Mulamba and Mock selection index. Silva and Viana (2012) assessed MM and DGI non-parametric indexes and the Smith and Hazel and Pesek and Baker parametric indexes. They found that the predicted ...
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ANALYSIS OF PRECIPITATIONS BY NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS OF MANN-KENDALL AND KRUSKAL-WALLIS
... Be that as it may, the non-tendency and/or persistence detected in the precipitation behavior does not exempt the need for greater investments in public policies in the SANEB. The drought in the most recent ...
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ASSESSING EFFICIENCY OF PORTUGUESE UNIVERSITIES THROUGH PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS
... Recent innovations, involving the use of panel data, have however allowed the advantages of both methods to be realised simultaneously, allowing the estimation of a cost [r] ...
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SPECIES-SPECIFIC FOREST VARIABLE ESTIMATION USING NON-PARAMETRIC MODELING OF MULTI-SPECTRAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC POINT CLOUD DATA
... or non-ground return using the progressive Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) densification method (Axelsson, 1999, 2000) implemented in the TerraScan software (Soininen, ...
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A non parametric survival analysis of Business demography dynamics in Portugal
... a non-negative variable, denoting the time to a failure event (“death”), in this case given by the time taken by an enterprise to exit the market from the moment of ...
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Assessing Hospital Efficiency: Non-parametric Evidence for Portugal
... are parametric and deterministic and as such they may confound “the effect of omitted variables and measurement errors, as well as possible misspecification of the functional form” (Jacobs, Smith and Street, ...
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Regulation and wage adjustment patterns : non parametric evidence from longitudinal data
... toward a methodology to quantify the influences of the Brazilian Wage Law on earnings short-run dynamics. The main characteristic of this methodology is a high le[r] ...
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