alternative specification
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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specification
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌspes.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌspes.ə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a detailed description of how something should be done, ...
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Further simulations show that the conclusions of the simulation experiment do not change under thisalternativespecification.
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In this article we propose analternativespecificationof the economic performance measures used in comparative voting models.
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Analternativespecificationof the equation using an economic assessment term that is retrospective also was estimated.
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We report later on analternativespecificationin which only new investment flows are intermediated. 11.
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Thisalternativespecificationpreserves the sign and the meaning of the coefficients of outwards flows but not those of inwards flows.
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Thisalternativespecificationof class did not add explanatory power to our model, and we do not present those results here.
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The full set of parameter estimates of thealternativespecificationare available from the authors upon request.
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In order to accelerate the production of material for greatcoats analternativespecificationwas introduced in the summer.
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Alternative specifications, such as including exploration costs into our model or different assumptions about future world oil prices, could alter our results.
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Some of the findings in this paper have been confirmed for alternative specifications of preferences and frictions in financial markets.
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The results for transfers are kept unaltered across all the alternative specifications investigated.
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Our major findings are robust to several alternative specifications that take into account the role of intersectoral and intercountry productivity spillovers.
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In an effort to disentangle the effects of income from water sources, alternative specifications dropping the water source dummy were experimented with.
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A list of alternative specifications and their results are available from the authors upon request.
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Thisalternativespecificationis not used here.
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There was not much qualitative difference between the results derived from these alternative specifications.
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We tried a number of other heteroscedasticity specifications in combination with alternative specifications of the regressors in our base model.
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Alternative specifications with these variables operating contemporaneously and with one-month and two-month lags are considered.
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We should note that we also calculated the residuals using alternative specifications of the relationship between presidential vote and member ideology, including a cubic specification.
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