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On Measuring The Cost Of Children:The Case Of Rural Maharashtra., Manisha Chakrabarty Dr.
On Measuring The Cost Of Children:The Case Of Rural Maharashtra., Manisha Chakrabarty Dr.
Doctoral Theses
In this dissertation we have attempted to measure the cost of children, which plays a crucial role in matters relating to welfare and public policy like child benefits and compensation policies of the government. The cost is measured based on the single equation as well as the systems approach using the 38th round National Sample Survey (NSS) data on household consumer expenditure for rural Maharashtra (relating to the period of January to December, 1983).The first chapter provides a brief account of the basic literature on empirical demand analysis which is relevant for welfare comparison between households. To be specific in …
Time-Space Harmonic Polynomials For Stochastic Processes., Arindam Sengupta Dr.
Time-Space Harmonic Polynomials For Stochastic Processes., Arindam Sengupta Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The sequence of polynomials of a single variable known as the Hermite polynomialshala) = ), k21, (-1)* ha(z) =has many close links with the Normal distribution. Their association goes very doep, and extends to several connections bet ween the two-variable Hermite polynomialsHll, 2) = the(z/t), . k21.and the prime example of Gaussian processes, that is Brownian motion, as well. Much of this connection stems from what we term the time-space harmonic property of these polynomials for the Brownian motion process. An exact definition of this property follows later. A natural question that arises is, for stochastic processes in general, when …
Muyltivariate And Regression Analysis Based On The Geometry Of Data Clouds., Biman Chakraborty Dr.
Muyltivariate And Regression Analysis Based On The Geometry Of Data Clouds., Biman Chakraborty Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Median is a natural estimate of location of a data set, and there are several versions of inultivariate median studied in the literature, each of which is an interesting descriptive statistic for multivariate data and provides some nice geometric insights into the data cloud. One would expect that multidimensional median will be a natural estimate for the center of symmetry of a multivariate distribution. However, there is no unique concept of symmetry in multivariate problems. The center of symmetry can be defined in several ways there. For example, the d-dimensional random variable X is spherically symmetric about e €Rd if …
Pattern Classification Using Genetic Algorithms., Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Dr.
Pattern Classification Using Genetic Algorithms., Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Pattern recognition and machine learning form a major area of research and develop- ment activity that encompasses the processing of pictorial and other non-numerical information obtained from the interaction between science, technology and society. A motivation for the spurt of activity in this field is the need for people to com- municate with the computing machines in their natural mode of communication. Another important motivation is that the scientists are also concerned with the idea of designing and making intelligent machines that can carry out certain tasks that we human beings do. The most salient outcome of these is the …