In this paper we combine recent advances in marginal modelling for contingency tables with the notion of copula to formulate a class of models for describing how the joint distribution of a set of ordinal response variables depends on exogenous regressors. We derive the main properties of a marginal parameterization, the global interaction copula, whose nature is essentially non parametric, and...

In this study, we propose two models for predicting people's activity. The first model is the pedestrian distribution prediction (or postdiction) model by multiple regression analysis using space syntax indices of urban fabric and people distribution data obtained from a field survey. The second model is a street choice model for visitors using multinomial logit model. We performed a questionna...

The purpose of this paper is to study the adoption of a new technology by a firm when the competitor comes into play at a random date that can be seen as her birth date. The presence of a competitor is thus only revealed when she invests. We show that there exists a unique Bayesian equilibrium that can be split into three stages. No firm will invest before a threshold T ∗ 1 even if she is born ...

A general phenomenon puzzles all investors is that on one hand, most individual investors believe they need to construct the portfolio consisting of 15 or more stocks to prevent risk because that large investment companies frequently get high returns is due to they obey the existing investment theory to make the portfolio consisting of more than 100 stocks, but the individual investors loss the...

Proximity is a fundamental concept in any comprehensive ontology of space (Worboys 2001). The provision of a context-contingent translation mechanism between linguistic proximity measures (e.g. “near”, “far”) and metric distance measures is an important topic in current GIS research. After a discussion of context factors that mediate the relationship between linguistic and metric distance measu...

This note shows, by means of two simple, three-strategy games, the existence of stable periodic orbits and of multiple, interior steady states in a smooth version of the Best Response Dynamics, the Logit Dynamics. The main finding is that, unlike Replicator Dynamics, generic Hopf bifurcation and thus, stable limit cycles, occur under the Logit Dynamics, even for three strategy games. We also sh...

Using panel data from the National Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment Survey (ENEMDU) for Ecuador, we analyze outcomes of life job satisfaction whether moving bad to a good job—and vice versa—on satisfaction. In contrast with jobs, jobs are characterized by being employed in formal sector, social security registration, earning at least minimum wage. conditional logit estimate, found t...

This article demonstrates, theoretically and empirically, that public corruption is likely to degrade government management capacity its sub-dimensions such as human resource management, information financial capital (infrastructure) management. By shedding light on the classic black box idea of we explain deteriorates by hampering an effective integration Using panel ordered logit regressions ...

This paper identifies several serious problems with the widespread use of ANOVAs for the analysis of categorical outcome variables such as forced-choice variables, question-answer accuracy, choice in production (e.g. in syntactic priming research), et cetera. I show that even after applying the arcsine-square-root transformation to proportional data, ANOVA can yield spurious results. I discuss ...

This study investigates how a set of regulations influences the pro-environmental actions firms in panel 25 Transition Countries. For this purpose, we use enterprise survey data developed by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Investment (EIB) World Group (WBG). Based on logit modelling construction different indicators characterizing environmental firms, find that regulati...