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Barriers to Innovations in lower bureaucracy
(1982-09-17)In this feature a caselet with rich policy implications is presented to a panel of academics and practitioners. The panelists diagnose the problem or problems, analyse their causes and make policy-level recommendations ... -
Baselines for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: implications for international carbon trading
(2006-11-01)The study examines the dynamics of carbon emissions baselines of electricity generation in Indian states and Chinese provinces in the backdrop of ongoing electricity sector reforms in these countries. Two Indian states—Gujarat ... -
The basis of involvement in work and family contexts
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Bayesian analysis of the change-point problem for directional data
(Journal of Applied Statistics, 2008-11-11)In this paper, we discuss a simple fully Bayesian analysis of the change-point problem for the directional data in the parametric framework with von Mises or circular normal distribution as the underlying distribution. We ... -
A Bayesian analysis of racial differences in treatment among breast-cancer patients
(Advances and Applications in Statistics, 2015-06)It is a well known fact that race and ethnicity specific variations exist in the treatment and survival of cancer patients. Studies based on breast cancer patients admitted to community hospitals in U.S. depicted that there ... -
A Bayesian nonparametric approach for multiple mediators with applications in mental health studies
(Oxford University Press, 2024-02-09)Mediation analysis with contemporaneously observed multiple mediators is a significant area of causal inference. Recent approachesfor multiple mediators are often based on parametric models and thus may suffer from model ... -
Bayesian predictive inference of a finite population proportion under selection bias
(Elsevier Inc., 2013)We show how to infer about a finite population proportion using data from a possibly biased sample. In the absence of any selection bias or survey weights, a simple ignorable selection model, which assumes that the binary ... -
A Bayesian quantile regression model for insurance company costs data
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)We examine the average cost function for property and casualty insurers. The cost function describes the relationship between a firm's minimum production cost and outputs. A comparison of cost functions could shed light ... -
A Bayesian quantile regression model for insurance company costs data
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015)We examine the average cost function for property and casualty insurers. The cost function describes the relationship between a firm's minimum production cost and outputs. A comparison of cost functions could shed light ... -
A Bayesian test of Independence in a two-way contingency table using surrogate sampling
(Elsevier Inc., 2013-03-01)We consider a Bayesian approach to the study of independence in a two-way contingency table which has been obtained from a two-stage cluster sampling design. If a procedure based on single-stage simple random sampling ... -
Behavioral safety management
(2010-09-27)Industrial and occupational safety have become important areas of social concern in India with increase in industrial activity. The standard organizational response to accidents is conducting an investigation and taking ... -
Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: a test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange
(2010-10-13)This study focuses attention on this aspect of market efficiency. Earnings per share are central to the valuation of equity securities. The extent to which the shock market digests the information contained in earnings ... -
Behaviour of stock returns in the KLSE: a test of the random walk hypothesis
(2010-10-14)A sample of 224 companies listed in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was taken for the period 1991-96. The serial correlations tests of varying lags and the runs tests were employed to test for the random walk theory. The ... -
Being professional: organizational control in Indian call centres
(2006-10-29)The relationship between technocratic and socioideological control in organizations is contested among scholars. In an attempt to understand this complex interlinkage, the present study examined organizational control ... -
Beleif distortion near 52W high and low: evidence from Indian equity options market
(Wiley, 2023-06-28)We examine investors' behavioral biases and preferences in the options market near 52-week high and low (52W-H/L) using Indian options market data. We document that as the stock price approaches 52W high (low), the skewness ... -
Beliefs of the supervisory staff in the banking industry
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Benchmarking early literacy skills: developing a tool
(2002-07-19)India’s literacy rate has been rising gradually. Unfortunately we are in the dark about the literacy levels of the so-called literates. This paper attempts to describe a simple, quick, and easy to administer tool for ...