Browsing by Author "Stahlschmidt, Stephan"

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2013-08-07Diskussionspapier

A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care

Kehl, Konstantin; Stahlschmidt, Stephan

Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, differences ...
2014-02-19Diskussionspapier

An Application of Principal Component Analysis on Multivariate Time-Stationary Spatio-Temporal Data

Stahlschmidt, Stephan; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Thome, Helmut

Principal component analysis denotes a popular algorithmic technique to dimension reduction and factor extraction. Spatial variants have been proposed to account for the particularities of spatial data, namely spatial ...
2011-07-25Diskussionspapier

Bayesian Networks and Sex-related Homicides

Stahlschmidt, Stephan; Tausendteufel, Helmut; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl

We present a statistical investigation on the domain of sex-related homicides. As general sociological and psychological theory on this specific type of crime is incomplete or even lacking, a data-driven approach is ...
2014-10-16Diskussionspapier

Expectile TreatmentEffects

Stahlschmidt, Stephan; Eckardt, Matthias; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl

The distribution of treatment effects extends the prevailing focus on average treatment effects to the tails of the outcome variable and quantile treatment effects denote the predominant technique to compute those effects ...
2011-10-14Masterarbeit

Graphical Modelling and Statistical Learning for Sex-related Homicides

Stahlschmidt, Stephan

We present a twofold analysis in the domain of sex-related homicides. Police profilers often help in criminal investigation of high profile cases, but empirical evidence in the domain is incomplete. We therefore at first ...