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Can AI-Assisted Inquiry Enhance Students' Decision-Making Skills in Socio-Scientific Issues? A Three-Group Experimental Study on Climate Change
Dimitrios Gousopoulos
Climate change is a socio-scientific issue: it rests on science but cannot be settled by science, because any serious response forces people to weigh costs, values, and competing i…
Bayesian inference and cure rate modeling for event history data
Panagiotis Papastamoulis, Fotios Milienos
Estimating model parameters of a general family of cure models is always a challenging task mainly due to flatness and multimodality of the likelihood function. In this work, we pr…
SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece
Anastasia Panori, Dimitris Ballas, Yannis Psycharis
Published during a severe economic crisis, this study presents the first spatial microsimulation model for the analysis of income inequalities and poverty in Greece. First, we pres…
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Comparative Evaluation of Teaching Quality Indicators in Higher Education
Dimitris Fouskakis, George Petrakos, Ioannis Vavouras
The problem motivating the paper is the quantification of students' preferences regarding teaching/coursework quality, under certain numerical restrictions, in order to build a mod…