Using success to measure quality in British higher education: which subjects attract the best-qualified students?
A theory is developed to measure the quality of applicants into UK higher education. It is based on the principle that more able applicants will self-select into more difficult subject choices. The advantage is that it gives a unidimensional measure whereby different groups can easily be compared across any dimension of interest, e.g. men, women and the various ethnic groups. Here the relative quality of applicants and acceptances across 170 separate subject groups is calculated and discussed by using a data set with over 2 million observations. It, therefore, offers a way of achieving a more refined measure of the "quality" of human capital. Copyright 2003 Royal Statistical Society.
This paper describes the background and significance of the high-grade cigarette,and evaluates the market characteristic of the high-grade cigarette based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.Professional concept and industry conditions have been introduced in the part of qualitative analysis.Case study and comparative analysis have been adopted to reveal the consumption conditions of the high-grade cigarette in the part of quantitative analysis.At last,author will apply the theory of luxury and Veblen effect to explain the phenomenon refered above.