Attribution analysis for heavy rainfall in Pakistan in 2010 using event attribution experiments

Studying Users’ Emotions Attribution Style in Information Retrieval Based on Weiner’s Emotion Attribution Theory

Background and Aim: This research aimed to study emotions attribution style of users in information retrieval based on Weiner's theory. Methods: The survey method was used in this study. Population consisted of graduate students in humanities at Imam Reza (AS) International University. Sample of 72 students was selected.  Data was collected by attribution style questionnaire (ASQ) and two resea...

Source attribution of 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti.

Applying Provenance to Protect Attribution in Distributed Computational Scientific Experiments

The automation of large scale computational scientific experiments can be accomplished with the use of scientific workflow management systems, which allow for the definition of their activities and data dependencies. The manual analysis of the data resulting from their execution is burdensome, due to the usually large amounts of information. Provenance systems can be used to support this task s...

PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTION FOR EQUITY PORTFOLIOS Performance Attribution for Equity Portfolios

Many portfolio managers measure performance with reference to a benchmark. The difference in return between a portfolio and its benchmark is the active return of the portfolio. Portfolio managers and their clients want to know what caused this active return. Performance attribution decomposes the active return. The two most common approaches are the Brinson-Hood-Beebower (hereafter referred to ...

A Common Framework for Approaches to Extreme Event Attribution

The extent to which a given extreme weather or climate event is attributable to anthropogenic climate change is a question of considerable public interest. From a scientific perspective, the question can be framed in various ways, and the answer depends very much on the framing. One such framing is a risk-based approach, which answers the question probabilistically, in terms of a change in like...