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800 ord till Rolf Solli
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2013-05)I samband med Rolf Sollis 60-årsdag har vi bjudit in våra kollegor till att delta i en mindre festskrift till vår vän och kollega. Rolf har som vi alla vet många strängar på sin lyra: undervisning, forskning, prefektskap, ... -
A CUSUM PROCEDURE FOR DETECTION OF OUTBREAKS IN POISSON DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL HEALTH EVENTS
(University of Gothenburg, 2010-11-02)CUSUM procedures which are based on standardized statistics are often supposed to have expectation zero and being normally distributed. If these conditions are not satisfied it can have serious consequences on the determination ... -
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
(2019-03-20)In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra ... -
A comparison of conditioned versus unconditioned forecasts of the V AR(l) process
(University of Gothenburg, 2003-05-01)The properties of a forecast usually depend upon whether the forecast is conditioned on the final period observation or not. In the case of unconditioned forecasts it is well known that the point predictions are unbiased. ... -
A COMPARISON OF TWO DESIGNS FOR ESTIMATING A SECOND ORDER SURFACE WITH A KNOWN MAXIMUM
(University of Gothenburg, 1994-04-01)Two level fractional factorial designs with a star are often used when working with lower polynomial models. In this paper an alternative design is discussed and compared with the fractional factorial design. We are working ... -
A comprative study of some approaches for constructing tolerance limits
(2000)In a dose finding study the aim is to come up with a safe and efficient drug administration. By comparing the obtained tolerance limits with predetermined desired concentration limits, i.e. the therapeutic window, one may ... -
A Critical Perspective on Trust & Management Control Concepts
(2014)Purpose – This article critically examines concepts of trust and concepts of management control particularly for themself and together. Some of the most prominent/influential concepts, and the underlying assumptions behind ... -
A Dynamic Model of Inflation for Kenya 1974 - 1996
(1998)This paper develops an error correction model with the aim of analysing the behaviour of prices in Kenya during 1974 -1996. In estimating the model, we first test for cointegration in the money and foreign exchange markets, ... -
A Fair Share : Burden-Sharing Preferences in the United States and China
(2010-10)Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about ... -
A Hybrid Operating Room in the Making - Coordinating the lntroduction and Use of New Technology
(2020-05-11)New technologies are often introduced hoping to achieve cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and product/service quality increases. Early researchers have often focused on these hopes and how existing organizational ... -
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(2016-02)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
A man´s world? – The impact of a male dominated environment on female leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)Despite the significant growth in female labor force participation and educational attainment over the past decades, few women reach leadership positions. In this study, we explore whether male dominated environments, in ... -
A marketing design approach to destination development
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A Markov Chain Model for Analysing theProgression of Patient´sHealth States
(2011)Markov chains (MCs) have been used to study how the health states of patients are progressing in time. With few exceptions the studies have been based on the questionable assumptions that the MC has order m=1 and is ... -
A Markov Copula Model of Portfolio Credit Risk with Stochastic Intensities and Random Recoveries
(2012-10)In [4], the authors introduced a Markov copula model of portfolio credit risk. This model solves the top-down versus bottom-up puzzle in achieving efficient joint calibration to single-name CDS and to multi-name CDO ... -
A Microeconomic Analysis of Institutions
(2000)This survey paper has three themes; a microeconomic analysis of institutions, an institutional analysis of microeconomics, and a discussion on the scope for an "institutional microeconomics" that takes insights ... -
A mise-en-sens process - Sensegiving and wind power development
(2006)This article intends to contribute to the conceptualising of organisational sensegiving. Based upon a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit application process for their projects, we ... -
A monitoring system for detecting starts and declines of influenza epidemics
(2003-12-01)The aim is to detect an influenza outbreak as soon as possible. Data are weekly reports of number of patients showing influenza-like symptoms. At each additional observation we decide whether a change has occurred or ... -
A NOTE ON ROTATABILITY
(University of Gothenburg, 1994-10-01)The need of a measure of rotatability is discussed and exemplified through some examples. The examples also shows the difficulties with measuring rotatability. A graphical technique for exploring the variance function is ... -
A note on the first moment of extreme order statistics from the normal distribution
(2000)In this note some well known asymptotic results for moments of order statistics from the normal distribution are treated. The results originates from the work of Cramér. A bias correction for finite sample sizes is proposed ...