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Transforming FSI in ASEAN with Cloud Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

auxmoney began as a peer-to-peer lender in 2007, with the mission of improving access to credit and promoting financial inclusion. Much of this reluctance stems from the regulatory environment, arising from lengthy reviews and approvals processes, or even simple near-term regulatory uncertainty. .

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. There is also uncertainty related to our modeling choices — did we select the correct polynomial embedding function $f(x)$, or is the true relationship better described by a different polynomial embedding?

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Editor's note : The relationship between reliability and validity are somewhat analogous to that between the notions of statistical uncertainty and representational uncertainty introduced in an earlier post. But for more complicated metrics like xRR, our preference is to bootstrap when measuring uncertainty.

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The trinity of errors in applying confidence intervals: An exploration using Statsmodels

O'Reilly on Data

Because of this trifecta of errors, we need dynamic models that quantify the uncertainty inherent in our financial estimates and predictions. Practitioners in all social sciences, especially financial economics, use confidence intervals to quantify the uncertainty in their estimates and predictions.

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Why model calibration matters and how to achieve it

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

bar{pi} (1 - bar{pi})$: This is the irreducible loss due to uncertainty. If calibration matters, our recommendation is to follow the paradigm proposed by Gneiting (2007) : pick the best performing model amongst models that are approximately calibrated, where "approximately calibrated" is discussed in the next section.

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Guide to Intercompany Transfer Pricing

Jet Global

The company transferred IP value to affiliates between 2007 and 2009. Besides the transition to software, we’re also seeing greater volatility in global events, uncertainty in global trade policies, and corporate challenges. billion transfer pricing of a royalty agreement.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

King was a wise King, but now he was gripped with uncertainty. – Gartner 2007. “60-70% The Wizard declared his determination to deploy his discerning divination daily [11] , should the King confer on him the high office of Chief Wizard of Suzerain [12]. The office of Chief Wizard commanded a stipend that was not inconsiderable.