Abstract This article provides a revealed preference characterisation of quasi-hyperbolic discounting which is designed to be applied readily available expenditure surveys. We describe necessary and sufficient conditions for the leading forms model also study consequences restrictions on preferences popularly used in empirical lifecycle consumption models. Using data from household panel datase...

Trace analysis plays a fundamental role in many program analysis approaches, such as runtime verification, testing, monitoring, and specification mining. Recent research efforts bring empirical evidence that execution traces are frequently comprised of many meaningful trace slices merged together, each slice corresponding to instances of relevant parameters. For example, a Java program creating...

The objective of the present research manuscript is to perform parametric, nonparametric, and decision tree analysis to evaluate two treatments that are being used for breast cancer patients. Our study is based on utilizing real data which was initially used in “Tamoxifen with or without breast irradiation in women of 50 years of age or older with early breast cancer” [1], and the data is suppl...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the levels of technical efficiency in agricultural sector of MENA countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approaches in 2007-2008. The results show that the total average of technical efficiency is as follows: DEABCC(0.770)>DEACCR(0.744)>SFA(0.479), and among all MENA countries, the best performanc...

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