various researches have been carried out about benefits of accounting information and their influence on decision making of financial statements users. for example, many researches have examined the relationship between accounting variables and stock returns or stock price. this study determines and compares the relative and incremental content of accounting variables, too. for this purpose, th...

High efficiency video coding- (HEVC-) based 3D video coding (3D-HEVC) developed by joint collaborative team on 3D video coding (JCT-3V) for multiview video and depth map is an extension of HEVC standard. In the test model of 3D-HEVC, variable coding unit (CU) size decision and disparity estimation (DE) are introduced to achieve the highest coding efficiency with the cost of very high computatio...

The main problem in any model-building situation is to choose from a large set of covariates those that should be included in the “best” model. A decision to keep a variable in the model might be based on the clinical or statistical significance. There are several variable selection algorithms embedded in SAS PROC LOGISTIC. Those methods are mechanical and as such carry some limitations. Hosmer...

The present article examines two important effects that have been given scant attention in prior studies of variable risk strategies. The first effect, reference group sensitivity, is the degree to which decision makers’ aspirations are sensitive to their reference group. In this paper we compare the performances of decision makers with alternative levels of reference group sensitivity. Second,...

where X is a random variable representing a decision maker’s current prospect, Y is a random variable representing a possible venture, and y is his utility function for future wealth. The current prospect reflects the decision maker’s possible values of future wealth if he proceeds with his present plans, commitments, business undertakings, investments, etc. The venture Y is a prospective secur...

in this research, efficiency of iranian forest and rangeland decision making unit was assessed using non-parametric method. inputs and outputs determined by field research and with applying a delphi method the final input and output variables selected. forty five wood-producing units (forestry plans) in three northern iranian province were studied using data envelopment analysis. the efficiency...

abstract. data envelopment analysis (dea) is now widely utilized as a method for assessing relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (dmus). along as evaluating relative efficiency dea models are capable of to be improved for finding benchmark for inefficient units which can help managers for better making decision. thus it is important to obtain accurate results from dea models. in...

To deal with decision-making problems with interval neutrosophic uncertain linguistic information, the paper proposes a multiple attribute group decision-making method under an interval neutrosophic uncertain linguistic environment. Firstly, the concept of an interval neutrosophic uncertain linguistic set and an interval neutrosophic uncertain linguistic variable (INULV) is presented by combini...

Definition 3 A decision tree is a binary tree T. Each internal node of T is labeled with a variable xi and each leaf is labeled with a value −1 or 1. Given an input x ∈ {−1, 1}n, the tree is evaluated as follows. Start at the root; if this is a leaf then stop. Otherwise, query the value of the variable xi. If xi = −1 then recursively evaluate the left subtree, if xi = 1 then recursively evaluat...