作者: Thomas R. Willemain , Anil Goyal , Mark Van Deven , Inderpreet S. Thukral
DOI: 10.1007/BF02497090
关键词: Raw data 、 Fiscal year 、 Actuarial science 、 Fund raising 、 Higher education 、 Average size 、 Institutional research 、 Age differences 、 Class (computer programming) 、 History 、 Demographic economics 、 Education
摘要: We analyzed fifty years of inflation-adjusted data on the Annual Giving program Princeton University. Most variation in both average size gifts and percentage class giving can be explained with simple models having three factors: reunion number, identity, fiscal year. Besides providing insights into factors influencing donations, these provide a way to unmask features that are not evident raw data, such as trends behavior exceptional performances by particular classes years.