Template for Extended abstarct for the 5thInternational Statistical Conference 2014, Institute of Applied Statistics Sri LankA (IASSL)

Title Goes Here: Forecasting Dry Spells in Sri Lanka – A Novel Approach

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Abstract

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Customer satisfaction is the key to market Internet Banking (IB) services and the banks in Sri Lankaare targeting the unique needs of customers to succeed in providing IB services. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that influence the adoption of IB services in a private bank in Sri Lanka and suggest some recommendation to the management. A theoretical model was first developed that conceptualizes the links between four types of different sections namely demographic, convenience, risk and security and the adoption of IB. Based on resources and time constrain two stage purposive sampling method was adopted to acquire information through a structered questionaire.Of the attributes related to demographicgender, age, educational level, awarness of the service and monthly income were identified as significantly influential varaibles on IB. Based on direct response of the responents more than 75% strongly agreed that convenience, risk and security directly influence on adoption of IB confirming our theorotical model is correct. Of the attributes related to convenience two factors namely, “bank administration” and “easy banking” were found to be significant on the adoption of IB. Of the attributes related to risk, “reliability” and “confidential” were found to be significant on the adoption of IB. Simillarly “trust” and “instructions” were found as influential factors on adpotaion of IB based on attributes in security. As factors are linear combination of attributrs an understanding of the identified factors are more beneficial than attributes alone to improve the efficient of IB in commercial bank. Results are useful to the practitioners who plan and promote new forms of banking in the current competitive market. The methodlogy applied can be used to any banks as well.

Keywords: Adoption, Convenience, Factor Analysis, Internet Banking, Perceived risk and Security perception. (Maximum six)

1. Introduction

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2. Materials and Methods

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2.1 Subsections

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3. Results and Discussion

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Figure 1 - Histogram of the log price series

Table 1: Comparison of different diagnostic measure for the identified three mean equations for the log (gold price) series

P Value of the AR Parameter / AIC Value / Durbin-Watson Statistic
AR(1) p = 0.0000 / 3.008 / 2.022
AR(2) p = 0.0000 / 2.324 / 1.055
AR(1) p = 0.0000
AR(2) p = 0.8174 / -3.001 / 2.000

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4. Conclusions and Recommendations

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References

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Acknowledgements

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