Search Results - Social problems Statistical methods.
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Social exclusion and labour market outcomes: evidence from eastern Europe and central Asia
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Estimating a social accounting matrix using cross entropy methods
Published 1998“…Since the input-output accounts are contained within the SAM framework, updating an input-output table is a special case of the general SAM estimation problem. The paper describes the RAS procedure and “cross entropy” method, and compares the underlying “information theory” and classical statistical approaches to parameter estimation. …”
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The impact of climate change on agriculture in the Republic of Mauritius
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A refined method for theory-based evaluation of the societal impacts of research
Published 2020“…With high and increasing expectations for research to have social and environmental impact, there is a corresponding need for appropriate methods to demonstrate (for accountability) and analyze (for learning) whether and how research projects contribute to change processes. …”
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A hierarchical method for soil erosion assessment and spatial risk modelling: a case study of Kiambu district in Kenya.
Published 2003“…To demonstrate that the selected erosion proxies can be related to actual occurrences of soil erosion by statistical methods and similarly be differentiated as either drivers or disrupters of erosion. …”
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Southern Africa: economic structure, trade, and regional integration
Published 1996“…To date, the cross-entropy method has been applied to the Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) for the MERRISA countries, including the SAM for Zimbabwe.…”
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Mapping the soils of an Argentine Pampas region using structural equation modeling
Published 2017“…To tackle these problems, we investigated the use of structural equation modelling (SEM). …”
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Recovering common ground
Published 2014“…After introducing the problem and the methodology, a global overview of divided cities is performed in Chapter 3. …”
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Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa
Published 2006“…A final set of fourteen indicators was used; three are associated with natural capital, one with physical capital, two with social capital, six with human capital, and two with financial capital. …”
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Informe técnico -
Can activity meters be used as heat detectors for water buffaloes in hot climates?
Published 2007“…One of the greatest problems with buffalo milk production is the poor reproduction efficiency. …”
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Role of digital platforms in maintaining the value chains of vegetable, root and tuber crops functional in the face of Covid-19. Research Report
Published 2021“…This implies that the more a consumer acts in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes and use of new ideas or methods, the more they will think of themselves as having the efficacy to use the digital platforms in purchasing vegetables. …”
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Farmer perceptions of Imazapyr Resistant (IR) maize on the control of Striga in Western Kenya
Published 2008“…For a long time, farmers in Nyanza and Western provinces in Kenya have had to deal with the Striga problem. To most of them Striga had become a way of life and they had given up hope. …”
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