Ranked-choice voting has come to mean a range of electoral systems. Broadly, they can facilitate (a) majority winners in single-seat districts, (b) rule with minority representation multi-seat or (c) sweeps districts. Further, such systems combine rules encourage/discourage slate voting. This article describes five major versions used, abandoned, and/or proposed for US public elections: alterna...

Abstract Separation or “perfect prediction” is a common problem in discrete choice models that, practice, leads to inflated point estimates and standard errors. Standard statistical packages do not provide clear advice on how correct these problems. Furthermore, separation can go completely undiagnosed fitting advanced that optimize user-supplied log-likelihood rather than relying pre-programme...

Purpose-Universities all over the world have increased in numbers and Kenya is not an exception. This state of affairs has made universities scramble for students to justify their survival as well trying stay afloat hard economic times. research aimed at establishing strategic factors that influence choice by Kenya. Design/methodology/approach-The study employed Descriptive Survey design which ...

Strategy deals with decisions about the scope of the firm and related choices about how to compete in various businesses. As such, research in strategy entails the analysis of discrete choices that may not be independent of each other. In this paper, we review the methodological implications of modeling such choices and propose conditional, nested, mixed logit, and hazard rate models as solutio...

It is now evident that sustainability of an organisation is affected by its capability for the utilisation and development of new technologies. This potential, as the engine of strategic development of organisations, is based on the quality and quantity of the transfer of technology into organisations in both developed and developing countries. The fact that organisations in the first world are...