Forecasting household consumption of fuels: A multiple discrete-continuous approach

Household Use of Solid Fuels

An Empirical Analysis of Consumption Patterns for Mobile Apps and Web: A Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Approach

Using a unique panel data set detailing individual-level mobile app consumption, this study develops a utility theory-based structural model for multiple discrete/continuous choices in app use. We identify the dynamics and interdependencies between mobile apps and jointly quantify consumers’ app choice and satiation simultaneously. The results suggest that mobile users’ baseline utility is the ...

A continuous approximation fitting to the discrete distributions using ODE

The probability density functions fitting to the discrete probability functions has always been needed, and very important. This paper is fitting the continuous curves which are probability density functions to the binomial probability functions, negative binomial geometrics, poisson and hypergeometric. The main key in these fittings is the use of the derivative concept and common differential ...

Manpower Forecasting: A Discrete-Event Object-Oriented Simulation Approach

Every organization needs a workforce suitable for its tasks in order to reach its business aims. To get insight into the quality and amount of staff needed in the future, human resource forecasting models are being used. This descriptive paper addresses a new way of human resource forecasting, based on simulation models of personnel movements in the organization. An example model is implemented...

Study on Reduction of Energy Consumption of Household Refrigerators-Freezers

In the last quarter of the century, a substantial amount of research work has been conducted on optimization of energy consumption by refrigeration systems and on proper design and construction of household refrigerator-freezers. The importance of such energy optimization schemes stems from the environmental impacts of Freon (R-12) used as the working refrigerant in household refrigerator – fre...