The paper presents a study of how the detailed history of communication between a sales agent and a customer can be used to estimate the probability of success (sale). It utilizes the data obtained from a Minnesota based company that uses telesales in a business-to-business environment. Extensive telesales database was investigated and principal variables influencing the sale event were determi...

In this paper I analyze the various factors that drive educational achievement across various countries using regression analysis. The causal model includes the variables which describe family background, learning resources, school characteristics, learning approaches, and class features to fully account for all of the features that contribute to educational achievement. The Programme for Inter...

The problem of discrimination and classification is central to much of epidemiology. Here we consider the estimation of a logistic regression/discrimination function from training samples, when one of the training samples is subject to misclassification or mislabeling, e.g. diseased individuals are incorrectly classified/labeled as healthy controls. We show that this leads to zero-inflated bino...

This paper studies the saving behavior of rural households in Vietnam from two aspects: volume of savings and methods of saving. Two econometric models are conducted, the first one is a panel data model, used to examine the determinants of household saving; and the second one is a multinomial logit model used to investigate how a household chooses the way to save. Both models are based on the l...

the aim of this study was to investigate the potential association between growth hormone gh/alui and growth hormone receptor ghr/alui polymorphisms with milk yield and reproductive performances in holstein dairy cows in iran. blood samples of 150 holstein cows were collected and their genomic dna was extracted using gene-fanavaran dna extracting kit. fragments of the 428 bp of exon 5 growth ho...

Abstract— In some real case problems, a relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables called as profile is desirable to be monitored over time instead of the response variable itself. There are many techniques in the literature for monitoring the profiles. A special case of the profiles is where the response variable follows a binomial distribution known as Logi...