Dynamic Credit Quality Evaluation with Social Network Data by Stanley Sewe, Philip Ngare, Patrick Weke

“…At discrete times, the network data provides unbiased estimates of the current credit state of the borrower and her ego-network. …”
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Mobile Localization Based on Received Signal Strength and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient by Huiyu Liu, Yunzhou Zhang, Xiaolin Su, Xintong Li, Ning Xu

“…Although the GSM standard allows for a mobile phone to receive signal strength information from up to seven base stations (BSs), most of mobile phones only use the information of the associated cell as its estimated position. Therefore, the accuracy of GSM localization is seriously limited. …”
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Flood Diversion Algorithm for Anticollision in RFID System by Hua Huo, Jun Qiang Liu, Yong Jie Wang

“…Firstly, the algorithm launches an estimation of the number of tags and according to the estimation result decides whether a flood diversion processing needs to be started or not. …”
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Traveller Recurrence and Inter- versus Intratraveller Speed Variability: Analysis with Bluetooth Data by Erik Jenelius

“…The relations revealed in this paper may be used to estimate the relevant intratraveller variance based on the total variance and readily available route attributes. …”
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Some effects of lagged relationship on the cointegration inferences in small samples by Virmantas Kvedaras

“…Whenever the parameters are estimated in the first step of Engle–Granger procedure, the cointegration regression should be modified instead in order to avoid the autocorrelation caused bias of parameter estimates. …”
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Cloud-Based Fault Tolerant Control for a DC Motor System by Xiao He, Yamei Ju, Yang Liu, Bangcheng Zhang

“…The fault can be further estimated by a least-squares filter. Based on the fault estimation, a fault tolerant controller is designed to guarantee the stability as well as the control performance of the DC motor system. …”
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Robust Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulators Using the Fourier Series Expansion in the Presence of Uncertainty by Abdullah Hadipoor, Siamak Azargoshasb, Abdolrasool Ghasemi

“…The effect of uncertainty estimation based on the Fourier series expansion is studied instead of using the sign function. …”
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Sublinear Expectation Nonlinear Regression for the Financial Risk Measurement and Management by Yunquan Song, Lu Lin

“…In this paper, a sublinear expectation nonlinear regression is defined, and its identifiability is obtained. Several parameter estimations and model predictions are suggested, and the asymptotic normality of the estimation and the mini-max property of the prediction are obtained. …”
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Information Analysis of Catchment Hydrologic Patterns across Temporal Scales by Baoxiang Pan, Zhentao Cong

“…In this paper, the temporal scale transition revealed by observation and simulation was evaluated in an information theoretical framework named Aleatory Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation. The Aleatory Uncertainty refers to posterior uncertainty of runoff given the input variables’ observations. …”
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The Reliability-Based Design Optimization of considering Rock-Support Interaction for Rock Tunnels by Hongbo Zhao, Shaojun Li, Bingrui Chen

“…The proposed method for estimating the reliability index and determining the tunnel support parameters was introduced in detail. …”
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RELEVANCE OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS ON FRAUD REDUCTION IN NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS by Kamaluddeen Funsho Adisa IBRAHIM

“…The results from the findings based on the bootstrapping estimation method clearly suggest that increasing the engagement of forensic accountants’ significantly reduces the incidence of fraud in deposit money banks in Nigeria. …”
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Secant Kumaraswamy Family of Distributions: Properties, Regression Model, and Applications by Salifu Nanga, Shei Baba Sayibu, Irene Dekomwine Angbing, Mubarika Alhassan, Abdul-Majeed Benson, Abdul Ghaniyyu Abubakari, Suleman Nasiru

“…The maximum likelihood estimation method is used to obtain estimators of the family of distributions. …”
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Nord Stream methane leaks spread across 14% of Baltic waters by Martin Mohrmann, Louise C. Biddle, Gregor Rehder, Henry C. Bittig, Bastien Y. Queste

“…A numerical model, initialized by engineering estimates and our observations, enables us to constrain the mass of locally dissolved Nord Stream methane (9.5-14.7 kt). …”
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Effects of Landform on Site Index for Two Mesophytic Tree Species in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, USA by W. Henry McNab

“…Plot data from this study were also used to validate a previously developed prediction equation for estimating yellow-poplar site index and results indicated that unbiased estimates would be within 2.5 m. …”
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Transport Aircraft Conceptual Design Optimization Using Real Coded Genetic Algorithm by Vedant Singh, Somesh K. Sharma, S. Vaibhav

“…However, estimating the weight of an aircraft is not a simple task. …”
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Damage evaluation under complex fatigue loading conditions by L. Reis, J. Caxias, H. Soares, P. R. Costa, V. Anes, M. Freitas

“…In this work the stress scale factor (SSF) criterion and the virtual cycle counting (vcc) method are used to estimate fatigue life and damage accumulation with two damage accumulation rules. …”
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The effect of non-tariff measures (NTMS) on Indonesian pulp and paper exports by Rissa Hurulaini Ramadhani Nasution

“…The gravity model is estimated by a fixed effects model, Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood, and Hausman Taylor model. …”
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Time-Delayed Acceleration Feedback Control of a Single-Link Flexible Manipulator Using Kalman Filter by Yuming Huang, Weidong Chen, Minqiang Shao

“…An acceleration-based Kalman filtering method is developed in order to estimate the system state and external excitation necessary for the controller design. …”
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Nearby armed conflict affects girls' education in Africa. by Xiao Hui Tai

“…We link granular data on conflict events to georeferenced survey data on educational attainment from 28 countries in Africa, and use a regression-based approach to estimate the local effect of conflict exposure on female years of schooling. …”
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Explaining Obesity- and Smoking-related Healthcare Costs through Unconditional Quantile Regression by Bijan Borah, James Naessens, Kerry Olsen, Nilay Shah

“…The study also found that UQR impact estimates were substantially different from CQR impact estimates in the upper quantiles of the cost distribution. …”
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