bankruptcy anticipation is a phenomenon which has been increasingly favored by investors, banks and financial and credit institutes. since the potential signs of bankruptcy would be understood a few months before the real appearance of it, so the timely and accurate anticipation of this crisis will give the opportunity to managers and creditors in order to adopt preventable activities. the aim ...

Network formation among individuals constitutes an important part of many OR processes, but relatively little is known about how individuals make their linking decisions in networks. This article provides an investigation of heuristic effects in individual linking decisions for network formation in an incentivized lab-experimental setting. Our mixed logit analysis demonstrates that the inherent...

the purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. the survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely kedah, kelantan, terengganu, pahang, perak, selangor and johor in peninsular malaysia. a total of one-hundred and sixty seven ffv farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

This paper evaluates the statistical methodologies of cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and Logit analysis used in the examination of intrusion detection data. The research is based on a sample of 1200 random observations for 42 variables of the KDD-99 database, that contains ‘normal’ and ‘bad’ connections. The results indicate that Logit analysis is more effective than cluster or discri...

When customers are classified into ordered categories, which are defined from the outset, it may happen that the majority belongs to a single category. If a market researcher is interested in the correlation between the classification and individual characteristics, the natural question is whether one needs to collect data for all customers in that particular category. We address this question ...

We compare multinomial logit and mixed logit models for data on California households’ revealed and stated preferences for automobiles. The stated preference data elicited households’ preferences among gas, electric, methanol, and CNG vehicles with various attributes. The mixed logit models provide a much better fit to these data, and forecasting exercises demonstrate substantial differences be...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of gender inequality in education on rural poverty in Pakistan using Logit regression analysis on primary data sets. It is concluded that gender inequality in education has adverse impact on rural poverty. The empirical findings suggest that female-male enrolment ratio, female-male literacy ratio, Female-male ratio of total years of sc...

Even when information is made available through public campaigns, people may still retain inaccurate perceptions of environmental quality. We look at coastal water quality in Southern California via a telephone survey. Fewer than half of respondents are able to correctly rank two randomly chosen beaches in terms of water quality. A logit analysis of the rankings reveals that there are systemati...

M&A turned out to be significant form of corporate restructuring in post globalization period in Indian industries. The phenomenon is considered to be the most important strategy for gaining competitive advantage for firms. This study attempts to find out the determinants of M&A in Indian pharmaceutical industry. We use the PROWESS database provided by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy f...