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   Moments of the Weighted Sum-of-Digits Function

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Gerhard Larcher Friedrich Pillichshammer

   The weighted sum-of-digits function is a slight generalization of the well known sum-of-digits function with the difference that here the digits are weighted by some weights. So for example in this concept also the alternated sum-of-digits function is included. In...

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   The number of elements close to near-records in geometric samples

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Guy Louchard Helmut Prodinger

   The statistics of interest here are related to an independent sequence of geometrically distributed random variables. We look at the (n − k)th order statistic (=(k + 1)st winner) and study the number of elements that fall exactly a away...

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   Educational failure as a potential opening to real teaching – The case of teaching unaccompanied minors in Norway

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Wills Kalisha --- , Norway Tone Saevi --- , Norway

   This article explores the complexity of classroom interaction between teachers and unaccompanied teenagers seeking asylum in Norway. These teenagers find themselves within legal and political ‘grey areas’ where educational goals specific to their extreme situations are unavailable to them, and...

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   Higher moments and industry momentum returns

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Xiaoyue Chen --- , Australia Bin Li --- , Australia Andrew C. Worthington --- , Australia

   Motivated by the demonstrated profitability of industry momentum strategies and the established explanatory power of higher moments for momentum returns at the firm level, we investigate the relation between higher moments and industry momentum returns. We use January 1970 to...

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