Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
R.J. Adler, R.E. Feldman & M.S. Taqqu, A Practical Guide to Heavy Tails: Statistical Techniques and Applications.
J.J. Foste, A Beginner's Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows.
N. Limnios and G. Oprisan, Semi–Markov Processes and Reliability.     

Confidence Intervals for Current Status Data

Abstract.  The likelihood ratio statistic for testing pointwise hypotheses about the survival time distribution in the current status model can be inverted to yield confidence intervals (CIs). One advantage of this procedure is that CIs can be formed without estimating the unknown parameters that figure in the asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the distribution function. We discuss the likelihood ratio-based CIs for the distribution function and the quantile function and compare these intervals to several different intervals based on the MLE. The quantiles of the limiting distribution of the MLE are estimated using various methods including parametric fitting, kernel smoothing and subsampling techniques. Comparisons are carried out both for simulated data and on a data set involving time to immunization against rubella. The comparisons indicate that the likelihood ratio-based intervals are preferable from several perspectives.     

Powerbuilder中的数据窗口技术

Powerbu ilder是一个优秀的数据库系统开发工具,其核心技术是数据窗口技术,介绍了用Powerbu ilder的数据窗口进行数据库维护、查询、统计、作数据报表的方法,特别是在查询方面,有多种实现数据查询的办法,数据窗口技术显示了Powerbu ilder开发数据库程序的独特魅力。     

一个数据流查询系统的设计与实现

就目前大多数数据流查询处理过程中可能出现的一些问题，根据数据流处理的特点和要求，提出了新的查询处理结构，实现了数据共享及多流多查询环境下查询的处理．     

社会主义初级阶段的生产资料所有制理论新释

尽管党的十五大对社会主义初级阶段公有制及非公有制的含义、地位和作用作了明确界定,但理论界对这一问题仍有诸多争议。笔者认为,公有制的主体地位为社会主义市场经济提供了体制保障,而其主体地位又在动态的所有制结构中得以保持。非公有制存在和发展的深层原因在于劳动还是谋生手段,人们的个体利益必然存在,社会还不得不利用他们的个体利益要求来充分调动其积极性、创造性,以创造更多的财富来满足其需求。公有制与非公有制是相互对立非相互对抗、相互促进非相互促变的关系,它们共存于一个既相互渗透又可相互转化的动态所有制结构之中。     

CCI与中国证券市场走势的实证分析

美英等国的消费者信心指数(CCI)对股市指数收益有很重要的影响力。为探讨CCI与中国证券市场走势的相关关系,通过两类模型对1999年10月~2004年8月间我国股市收益与CCI之间的关系进行了实证分析。结果表明:CCI对深沪五个指数的走势有显著的解释与预测效果,但对我国的B股市场似乎没有显著性。     

An evaluation of the childhood family structure measures from the sixth wave of the British Household Panel Survey

Summary.  The paper performs an evaluation of the data that were collected in the sixth wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) on childhood family structure. After comparing such data with a large number of studies by using external sources, we find that the BHPS data overestimate the proportion of people who report an experience of life in a non-intact family during childhood by about 10%. Although an explanation based on recall error that deteriorates with the age of the BHPS respondents is possible, the overestimation is likely to be accounted for by non-ignorable attrition that may affect most of the comparison studies based on longitudinal data. Conversely, comparisons with other independent measurements from the BHPS itself reveal that the wave 6 data underestimate the proportion of young people who have lived at least part of their childhood in a non-intact family by about 8%. The probability of disagreement between these two sets of measures is strongly associated with poor interview characteristics, which may affect the comparison measure more than the wave 6 measure. Despite such differences, there is therefore a substantial degree of similarity between the family structure information that was collected in the sixth wave of the BHPS and the host of highly diverse records against which it has been compared.     

基于拥挤收费的动态出发时间选择

针对动态交通分配领域中往往假定所有车辆的出发时间是固定的不正确假设，探讨基于拥挤收费的出发时间选择问题的负效用函数，建立动态出发时间选择问题的变分不等式模型．结果表明，建立的变分不等式模型等价于动态用户最优出发时间选择问题.     

Semiparametric linear transformation models for current status data

Current status data arise when the death of every subject in a study cannot be determined precisely, but is known only to have occurred before or after a random monitoring time. The authors discuss the analysis of such data under semiparametric linear transformation models for which they propose a general inference procedure based on estimating functions. They determine the properties of the estimates they propose for the regression parameters of the model and illustrate their technique using tumorigenicity data.     

城市蔓延与生产率:促进还是抑制? ——基于夜间灯光数据的分析

城市蔓延有利于提高城市生产率吗?文章首先从城市规模、城市人口密度两个方面阐释城市蔓延影响生产率的内在机理,基于长江经济带104个城市2002年~2013年夜间灯光数据,实证研究了城市蔓延的生产率效应,主要结论如下:1)城市蔓延对长江经济带生产率具有显著负向影响,意味着城市无序、低密度扩张阻碍了长江经济带生产率的提高.2)分区域研究发现,城市蔓延对东、中、西部地区城市生产率的影响为负,但对东部地区生产率影响最小,对中西部地区生产率产生较大影响.3)分产业研究发现,城市蔓延降低第二产业生产率的同时显著提升了第三产业生产率.4)考虑空间溢出效应的空间杜宾模型研究发现,城市蔓延影响生产率的直接效应与间接效应均显著为负,且间接效应远大于直接效应,意味着城市蔓延对长江经济带城市生产率的影响具有明显的空间溢出效应.