Sökning: "statistical performance"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 546 avhandlingar innehållade orden statistical performance.
16. Förvaltningens gräns mot marknaden. Om mekanismer bakom och effekter av kommunernas marknadsutnyttjande
Sammanfattning : Varför anlitar vissa kommuner externa leverantörer i stor utsträckning medan andra kommuner i väldigt liten utsträckning överlåter produktionen och tillhandahållandet av service och välfärdstjänster på externa leverantörer? Vad utmärker egenregiproduktion och nyttjandet av externa leverantörer och i vilka fall är det ena att föredra framför det andra? Har valet av organiseringssätt någon betydelse för verksamhetens presterande? Dessa frågor är centrala spörsmål som behandlas och undersökts i föreliggande bok.. LÄS MER
17. A Tale of Two Concepts : Exploring the Relationship between Firm Performance and Multinationality
Sammanfattning : Despite being a pivotal topic over the past 50 years, the benefits and costs of internationalization are not well understood. A substantial body of research in international business, strategy, and general management is devoted to understanding firm internationalization and its connection to a firm’s financial performance; however, results are inconclusive. LÄS MER
18. Modeling pavement performance based on data from the Swedish LTPP database : predicting cracking and rutting
Sammanfattning : The roads in our society are in a state of constant degradation. The reasons for this are many, and therefore constructed to have a certain lifetime before being reconstructed. To minimize the cost of maintaining the important transport road network high quality prediction models are needed. LÄS MER
19. Competing Under Pressure : State Anxiety, Sports Performance and Assessment
Sammanfattning : Elevated levels of anxiety are a common response to stressful competitive sports situations, are known to moderate athletic performance and are referred to as an unpleasant emotional state associated with perceptions of situational threat. The empirical studies in this dissertation considered primarily psychometric, methodological and conceptual issues of relevance for the study of anxiety and sports performance. LÄS MER
20. Novel Statistical Methods in Quantitative Genetics : Modeling Genetic Variance for Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping and Genomic Evaluation
Sammanfattning : This thesis develops and evaluates statistical methods for different types of genetic analyses, including quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis, genome-wide association study (GWAS), and genomic evaluation. The main contribution of the thesis is to provide novel insights in modeling genetic variance, especially via random effects models. LÄS MER