He looked at Helen and said, "So this is the next stop after the cheese factory?" Eventually, I became what was known as a collator — a Bartleby-like occupation that computers have since done away with.
N n e k and 1 − N n q k are the Fermi-like occupation functions for the states in conduction and valence bands, respectively.
Occupation was coded on a six-point scale like like fathers' occupation.
Matters like occupation and a marriage partner were decided then, as was the precise instant of death.
Mr. Hunter of the consumer federation said his concern with using factors like occupation and education is that such factors are "surrogates" for criteria that states aren't allowed to use in setting premiums, like income.
The federation, a nonprofit comprising 250 consumer groups, has argued that insurers often give nondriving-related factors, like occupation and education, more weight than driving-related factors, and that such practices unfairly penalize lower- and moderate-income drivers.
They can take into account facts like occupation, salary and home value to spending on luxury goods or pet food, and do it all with algorithms that their creators say accurately predict spending.
By examining more than 2m transaction records, the RSC discovered a lot more about its best customers: not just income, but things like occupation and family status, which allowed it to target its marketing more precisely.
"We still have politicians who believe investment is like occupation," says Mohammed al-Rubaie, the chairman of strategic planning for the Baghdad Provincial Council and one of 11 brothers who own property and run businesses across the city, from a stationery-supplies chain to a mobile-phone franchise in a new headquarters on the eastern bank of the Tigris.
Transition matrices can also be constructed for qualitative variables or attributes, like occupation type, working sector, or education level.
