Essays about: "an quantitative research thesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 973 essays containing the words an quantitative research thesis.

1. 1. Modelling rare events using non-parametric machine learning classiers - Under what circumstances are support vector machines preferable to conventional parametric classiers?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Lukas Ma; [2021-04-06]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Rare event modelling is an important topic in quantitative social science research. However, despite the fact that traditional classiers based upon general linear models (GLM) might lead to biased results, little attention in the social science community is devoted to methodological studies aimed at alleviating such bias, even fewer of them have considered the use of machine learning methods to tackle analytical problems imposed by rare events. READ MORE

3. 2. Evaluating trace link visualizations

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

   Author : Fredrik Johansson; Themistoklis Ntoukolis; [2021-03-03]
   Keywords : Traceability; Eclipse Capra; traceability visualizations; computer science; engineering; project; thesis; requirements; change impact analysis; matrix; sunburst;

   Abstract : Traceability has become a very important part of the software development lifecycle andtherefor a lot of research has been done and is being done about it. Our aim with thispaper is to explore and evaluate the effect that different traceability visualizations haveon the workload and find the most optimal visualizations that users will benefit more byusing in their projects. READ MORE

4. 3. Tourism has impacts on smaller destinations too : A questionnaire study to determine any tourism effects on smaller destinations and its residents.

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Felicia Carlström; Johanna Gustavsson; [2021]
   Keywords : tourism; destination; rural tourism; triple bottom line; sociocultural effects; economic effects; environmental effects; Glasriket; residents’ attitudes; seasonality;

   Abstract : Tourism is something that today is very common for most parts of the world. Tourism effects is a phenomenon that focuses on the effects of tourism which can affect destinations and residents in different ways. The most common are social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts. READ MORE

5. 4. CONSCRIPTION WITH CONSEQUENCES? Exploring the Effects of Military Personnel Supply Method Choice on Civil War Onset

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Victor Hasslöf; [2021]
   Keywords : Civil War; Civil War Onset; Conscription; Military Policy; Voluntary Service; Quantitative; War; Military Personnel; Military Manpower; Military Manpower Studies; Cause Of Civil War; Conflict; Conscription With Consequences; Inbördeskrig; Värnplikt; Orsak; Militärpolicy;

   Abstract : Positing that the characteristics of a state’s military has an effect on civil war outbreak likelihood, this thesis examines a hitherto unexplored relationship —that between military personnel supply method and civil war onset. Based on earlier research on the two phenomena separate from each other, a theory linking conscription to an increased probability of civil war onset compared to voluntary service was developed and an hypothesis derived. READ MORE

6. 5. Blame it on the COVID-19? : Content analysis of articles published by SVT following the COVID-19 outbreak

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Max Kelbel; [2021]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Catastrophes, be it natural or not, have always served as a time to reform, a time to awaken slumbering ideas and notions or simply a time to be taken advantage of. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan in December 2019 and later in Sweden at the end of January 2020 there have been several actors who took advantage of the situation to benefit their own agenda. READ MORE