Beyond the baseline: Establishing the value in mobile phone based poverty estimates

25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 425-434

  Smith Clarke, Chris ^a   Capra, Licia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; MOBILE PHONES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TELEPHONE SETS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADDED VALUES; BASELINE MODELS; MOBILE PHONE CALLS; POPULATION DENSITIES; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; USAGE SCENARIOS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 85033437063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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