Browsing by Subject "Risk"

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    • Against All Odds: Outstanding Reading Performance among Chilean Youth in Vulnerable Conditions 
      Gómez Vera, Gabriela; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo; Sotomayor Echeñique, Carmen (University of Chicago, 2015)
      International studies show that the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on learning has increased in a number of countries and that poverty is a risk factor that puts children's academic performance at risk. However, ...
    • The Ordered Weighted Average in the Variance and the Covariance 
      Merigó Lindahl, José; Guillén, Montserrat; Sarabia, José M. (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper analyzes the use of the OWA in the variance and ...