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A method for retail product selection using data mining
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Product assortment planning is considered as one of the important problems in the retail business. Traditional approaches to product selection in the assortment are largely based on individual product popularity or margins. ...
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for ...
Predicting helpfulness of online customer reviews
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Helpfulness of online reviews plays an important role in customer purchase decision making process. However, the review helpfulness prediction problem is considered to be quite challenging and hard. This paper aims to ...
Multi-period facility location problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers. We model the prob- lem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty. The problem is unconventional in that the uncertainty ...
Some auto-power divergence measures for stationary time series of categorical data
(IIM-A Publication, 2013-05-05)
For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. Biswas and Guha (2009) used mutual information ...
On estimation of number of species and biodiversity
(IIM-A publication, 2013-05-03)
Suppose S is the unknown number of species in a community, and the sample consists of m distinct species, fj species are represented j times in the sample, j = 1; 2; ... ; k. Let f0 be the number of missing species in the ...
Modelling and analysis of multivariate ordinal categorical data in longitudinal set up
(IIM-A publication, 2013-05-04)
In recent years, there has been a tremendous continuing attention to- wards the modelling and analysis of longitudinal data, although not much attention is paid to the ordinal categorical data. The problem becomes more ...
A test for the two-sample problem using mutual information
(IIM-A Publication, 2013-05-06)
For two independently drawn samples from continuous distributions, a statistical test based on the mutual information statistic is proposed for the null hypothesis that both the samples originate from the same population. ...
Long term financing of infrastructure
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Infrastructure projects, given their long life, require long term financing. The main sources of long term financings are insurance and pension funds who seek long term investments with low credit risk. However, in India ...
Model risk in pricing path-dependent derivatives: an illustration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Model selection and model uncertainty go hand-in-hand. However, while there is uncertainty associated with the selection of any model, the context is paramount. This study is an illustration of issues surrounding model ...