Essays about: "use of statistics"

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  1. 1. Taiwanese Immigrants’ Perception of the Ethnic Hierarchy in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Yi-Chieh Chen; [2024-01-26]
    Keywords : Ethnic Hierarchy; Taiwanese Immigrants; Sweden; stereotype; social distance;

    Abstract : Ethnic hierarchy tends to exist in a multi-ethnic society. Sweden has a long history of receiving immigrants (Bentsen, 2021; Törngren, 2020). READ MORE

  3. 2. The association between obesity, low-grade inflammation, self-reported knee symptoms and radiographic knee osteoarthritis in individuals with knee pain : A longitudinal cohort study

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för företagande, innovation och hållbarhet

    Author : Alma Buer; [2024]
    Keywords : osteoarthritis knee pain; artros knä smärta;

    Abstract : Abstract  Background One of the earliest signs of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is knee pain which correlates with inflammation and disease severity. Knee OA affects 260 million worldwide, and is in similarity with obesity, characterized by ongoing low-grade inflammation. READ MORE

  4. 3. Predicting True Sepsis and Culture-positive Sepsis in Intensive Care Unit with Machine Learning Techniques

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Zeyuan Wu; [2024]
    Keywords : Machine Learning; Diagnosis of Sepsis; XGBoost; Logistic Regression; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : Sepsis, a serious medical condition often leading to patients requiring intensive care, has prompted numerous scientists to employ mathematical techniques to aid in its diagnosis. This thesis uses logistic regression and a machine learning technique, XGBoost, to predict true sepsis (as opposed to sepsis mimics) and culture-positive sepsis (among true sepsis) in critical care using blood test results, physiological measurements and other patient characteristics. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance on Employment Outcomes : Evidence from new micro level administrative data at Statistics Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Molly Bernhardsson; [2024]
    Keywords : Social assistance; Unemployment insurance; Employment outcomes; Propensity score matching; Kaplan-Meier estimator;

    Abstract : In this study, I examine the employment effects on average earnings and duration to work during a 45 month period, after receiving social assistance (SA) in October 2019, compared to receiving unemployment insurance (UI) the same month. A distinction is made between two treatment groups; receiving SA in addition to UI (treatment I) and receiving SA (treatment II). READ MORE

  6. 5. Comparing Model- and Delay-based Congestion Controls in a Kubernetes Cluster

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Robin Allansson; Vittcki Yang; [2024]
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    Abstract : Today's society is heavily influenced by the use of cloud-based services and the internet as a whole. This is causing higher demand for stable networks and maximized efficiency inside the cloud industry. The direction the cloud-based industry went was to maximize their hardware using virtualization. READ MORE