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  2. House allocation problem - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the primary efficiency requirement in house allocation is PE.There are various algorithms attaining a PE allocation in various settings. Probably the simplest algorithm for house allocation is serial dictatorship: the agents are ordered in some arbitrary order (e.g. by seniority), and each agent in turn picks the best remaining house by his/her preferences.

  3. Housing crisis in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Immigration into the United States in certain markets could account for a minuscule amount of inflated housing costs while some Economists believe that deporations would exacerbate the crisis given the high percentage of foreign-born workers building and fixing homes, with a professor at Wharton arguing there is no way to increase the supply ...

  4. Housing crisis - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] There is an ongoing decades-long increasing trend of cities around the world facing housing crises. [2] [5] Some notable examples of financial crises in the housing market are the American subprime mortgage crisis in 2007-2008 and the Chinese property sector crisis beginning in 2020.

  5. Loss function - Wikipedia

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    In many applications, objective functions, including loss functions as a particular case, are determined by the problem formulation. In other situations, the decision maker’s preference must be elicited and represented by a scalar-valued function (called also utility function) in a form suitable for optimization — the problem that Ragnar Frisch has highlighted in his Nobel Prize lecture. [4]

  6. Probability of error - Wikipedia

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    For a Type I error, it is shown as α (alpha) and is known as the size of the test and is 1 minus the specificity of the test. This quantity is sometimes referred to as the confidence of the test, or the level of significance (LOS) of the test.

  7. Causes of the 2000s United States housing bubble - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the 2% drop in long-term interest rates can account for about a 10 × 2% = 20% rise in home prices if every buyer is using a fixed-rate mortgage (FRM), or about 16 × 3% ≈ 50% if every buyer is using an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) whose interest rates dropped 3%.

  8. Home improvement fuels (false) optimism - AOL

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    The Home Depot's bottom line boost is thanks to lots of cost cutting, namely slowed expansion and the closing of under. The Home Depot's profits jumped 44% this quarter, beating expectations and ...

  9. False precision - Wikipedia

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    False precision (also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision, and spurious precision) occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies better precision than is justified; since precision is a limit to accuracy (in the ISO definition of accuracy), this often leads to overconfidence in the accuracy, named precision bias.