Essays about: "central tendency"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 68 essays containing the words central tendency.
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1. Does the Level of Swedish Economic Policy Uncertainty Help Forecast Excess Returns on the Swedish Stock Market?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines whether the level of Swedish economic policy uncertainty (EPU) can predict excess returns on the Swedish stock market. We run out-of-sample forecasting using an EPU-based predictive model constructed with the official Swedish EPU index developed by Armelius et al. (2017). READ MORE
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2. Geographic polarization and clustering of partisan voting: A local-level analysis of Stockholm Municipality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : In the last decade, the topic of political polarization has become a growing concern within academic and public debate. Many highlight the linkage between increased political polarization and democratic problems such as political tribalism and uncivil activism. It is also argued to be a global phenomenon. READ MORE
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3. Långsiktig torvnedbrytning för olika vegetationstyper på dikad skogsmark
University essay from SLU/School for Forest ManagementAbstract : Skogsklädda torvmarker i Sverige dikades i stor utsträckning mellan 1930- och 1980-talen i syfte att höja virkesproduktionen. Till följd av klimatproblemet har intresset för dikade torvmarkers bidrag till växthusgasutsläppen ökat under de senaste decennierna. READ MORE
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4. User concerns about ethical issues related to recommender systems in social media
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskapAbstract : Popular social media platforms use recommender systems (RS) to improve users’ experience. However, these systems pose potential issues including political polarization and fake news spread. READ MORE
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5. Capturing genes with high impact based on reconstruction errors produced by variational autoencoders
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : In this work we present a novel method to extract potential hub genes, transcription factors and regions with densely interconnected protein-protein-interaction networks from RNAseq data. To achieve this we deploy variational autoencoders, a generative machine learning framework, and extract the gene-wise reconstruction errors. READ MORE
