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Properties and Use of the Shewhart Method and Its Followers
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)
After the Shewhart method was suggested for industrial applications, other applications, such as surveillance for bioterrorism and financial transactions, came into focus. Other methods for surveillance have also followed. ...
What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania?
(Blackwell, 2006)
This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results are ...
'Never on a Sunday': Economic incentives and short-term sick leave in Sweden
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2005)
Using a longitudinal data for about 1800 persons observed between 1986 and 1991, this study investigates the incentive effects on short-term sickness spells of two important regime changes in the social insurance system ...
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica
(Springer, 2008)
We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ...
Tests of Markov Order and Homogeneity in a Markov Chain
(2011)
A three-state non-homogeneous Markov chain (MC) of order m≥0, denoted M(m), was previously introduced by the author. The model was used to analyze work resumption among sick-listed patients. It was demonstrated that wrong ...
Demand for coffee in Sweden: The role of prices, preferences and market power
(Elsevier, 2007)
There is a widespread belief that consumer coffee prices are high relative to bean prices and that lower consumer prices would lead to substantial increases in bean exports from Third-World countries. This issue is evaluated ...
Assessing the employment effects of vocational training using a one-factor model
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2006)
Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data ...
Long-term absenteeism due to sickness in Sweden. How long does it take and what happens after?
(Springer, 2008)
In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in
Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64
years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell
of at least 60 days during ...
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 Dynamic Model of Inflation in Kenya
(Oxford University Press, 2001)
This paper analyses the dynamics of inflation in Kenya during 1974 –1996, a period characterised by external shocks and internal disequilibria. By developing a parsimonious and empirically constant model we find that the ...