Local polynomial estimation of Poisson intensities in the presence of reporting delays

Summary.  The system for monitoring suicides in Hong Kong has considerable delays in reporting as the cause of death needs to be determined by a coroner's investigation. However, timely estimates of suicide rates are desirable to assist in the formulation of public health policies. This motivated us to develop a non-parametric procedure to estimate the intensity function of a Poisson process in the presence of reporting delays. We give closed form estimators of the Poisson intensity and the delay distribution, conduct simulation studies to evaluate the method proposed and derive their asymptotic properties. The method proposed is applied to estimate the intensity of suicide in Hong Kong.     

An Integrative View of the Institutional Repositories in Hong Kong: Strategies and Challenges

This paper reports on the developmental strategies, challenges and directions of the institutional repositories of the higher educational institutions in Hong Kong. The study integrates the size, content, full text and public accessibility of these repositories. The paper also compares archived output with research output as registered by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. Percentages of archived work are low for journal and conference papers, but moderate for graduate theses. These deposit rates reflect the differing institutional policies. In recognizing these challenges, the Hong Kong Open Access Committee has been formed to address regional issues in knowledge sharing.     

An Integrative View of the Institutional Repositories in Hong Kong: Strategies and Challenges

Abstract

This paper reports on the developmental strategies, challenges and directions of the institutional repositories of the higher educational institutions in Hong Kong. The study integrates the size, content, full text and public accessibility of these repositories. The paper also compares archived output with research output as registered by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. Percentages of archived work are low for journal and conference papers, but moderate for graduate theses. These deposit rates reflect the differing institutional policies. In recognizing these challenges, the Hong Kong Open Access Committee has been formed to address regional issues in knowledge sharing.     

Guns and Suicides

There is a consensus in the literature that the ratio of suicides committed with guns to total suicides is the best indirect measure of gun ownership. However, such a proxy is not accurate for any locality with low population density in view that suicides are rare events. To circumvent this issue, we exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of the suicide victims in order to come up with a novel proxy for gun ownership. We assess our indicator using suicide micro-data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health between 2000 and 2010.     

金融危机前后内地与香港股市联动性及引导性变化的实证研究

运用协整关系检验、格兰杰因果关系检验和脉冲响应分析,从实证的角度对金融危机前后内地股市与香港股市的联动性及引导性等方面所发生的变化进行分析。结果表明,金融危机使得内地股市与香港股市的联动性得以增强,两地股市从原来的单向因果关系转变为双向因果关系,同时内地股市对香港股市的引导关系从原来的不明显变得极其显著。这些变化对处于一体化过程中的两地股市及正在走向国际化的内地股市具有重要的现实意义。     

Promoting the Visibility of Educational Research through an Institutional Repository

Abstract

Established in 1994 through the amalgamation of several teacher training colleges, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is the major multidisciplinary teacher education provider in the Hong Kong SAR. Despite this, the Institute does not have a particularly high research profile when compared with its peer institutions in Hong Kong and around the world. Its research publishing achieves modest exposure and impact in international educational research literature. The Institute has a goal to attain the title of a “university of education” and has identified an improvement in its research output and profile as critical to achieving this. In this context the HKIEd Library embarked on the redevelopment of its institutional repository, changing its direction from being an archive of institutional publications to one which brought together and offered access to the sum total of published output of the Institute since its foundation, in a deliberate effort to promote Institute research. This paper explores the particular approach taken by the Library to the development of the institutional repository, how the repository contributes directly to and aligns with the research strategies of the Institute, and the impact the Repository has had so far on improving the profile of research at HKIEd.     

Promoting the Visibility of Educational Research through an Institutional Repository

Established in 1994 through the amalgamation of several teacher training colleges, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is the major multidisciplinary teacher education provider in the Hong Kong SAR. Despite this, the Institute does not have a particularly high research profile when compared with its peer institutions in Hong Kong and around the world. Its research publishing achieves modest exposure and impact in international educational research literature. The Institute has a goal to attain the title of a “university of education” and has identified an improvement in its research output and profile as critical to achieving this. In this context the HKIEd Library embarked on the redevelopment of its institutional repository, changing its direction from being an archive of institutional publications to one which brought together and offered access to the sum total of published output of the Institute since its foundation, in a deliberate effort to promote Institute research. This paper explores the particular approach taken by the Library to the development of the institutional repository, how the repository contributes directly to and aligns with the research strategies of the Institute, and the impact the Repository has had so far on improving the profile of research at HKIEd.     

Global kernel estimator and test of varying‐coefficient autoregressive model

We propose a varying‐coefficient autoregressive model that contains additive models, varying‐ coefficient models, partially linear models and low‐dimensional interaction models as special cases. A global kernel backfitting method is proposed for the estimation and inference of parameters and unknown functions in this model. Key large‐sample results are established, including estimation consistency, asymptotic normality and the generalized likelihood ratio test for parameters and non‐parametric functions. The proposed methodology is examined by simulation studies and applied to examine the relationship between suicide news reports in the three leading newspapers and the daily number of suicides in Taiwan. The relationship between the media reporting and suicide incidence has been established and explored. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 47: 487–519; 2019 © 2019 Statistical Society of Canada     

APPLICATION OF LAPLACE'S BOUNDARY-MODE APPROXIMATIONS TO ESTIMATE SPECIES AND SHARED SPECIES RICHNESS

The Laplace method for approximating integrals is a useful technique in a number of research fields. This paper shows that it also has interesting applications in biological and ecological statistical inferences. When sample abundance or replicated incidence (i.e., presence or absence) records of each species are available, the expected low‐order frequency counts in heterogeneous communities can be approximated by the Laplace method when the species discovery or detection probabilities are bounded from below by a constant. The approximation formulae as applied to one community can then be used to derive estimators of species richness and to examine their performance. The approach is also extended to obtain simple and new estimators for the number of shared species in two communities. The replicated species incidence data recorded by competing teams of the Hong Kong Big Bird Race for the years 1999 and 2000 are used to estimate the number of resident birds in Hong Kong and to illustrate the method of estimation.     

大陆与香港地区CPI变动的特征与动因比较

Based upon data from Guangzhou and Hong Kong areas, the article makes positive comparative analysis of CPI change feature and affecting factors in the two areas.     

人民币与国外主要货币的尾部相依和联动

文章选择1994年1月到2014年11月的人民币、美元、英镑、日元、欧元和港币等六种货币实际有效汇率的月度数据,首先采用AR-GARCH-t过程对收益率进行过滤,然后运用规则藤Copula函数对标准化残差序列进行建模,探讨人民币“第一次汇改”前后六种汇率之间的波动溢出效应,研究汇率之间的尾部相依和联动现象。研究发现：“第一次汇改”前后,人民币与其它五种货币实际有效汇率之间的相依结构发生了变化,且联动中的主导货币也由美元变为以人民币,但仍可用同一类型的规则藤Copula结构来描述;人民币与其它货币之间都存在对称的或非对称的尾部相依,其中人民币与日元之间存在对称的负尾部相依,而与欧元之间则存在负的上尾部相依。“第一次汇改”后,人民币与美元实际有效汇率之间正的尾部相依程度有所增加,且相依性最大,而港币与美元之间正的尾部相依性有较大幅度的下降。此外,人民币与日元之间负的尾部相依关系也有较大幅度的下降。     

普通高校学生学习方法及教师教学方法的显著性分析

一、引言目前,各大高校面临的一个普遍问题便是如何提高教学质量。怎样根据学生的特点以及学生专业的特点采用教学方法,已成为教育领域的一个新的课题。根据梁美容博士建立的学习方法矩阵[1],学习方法矩阵见表1。学习方法划分为九类,即浅表型学习方法(Surface Approach,简称SA)     

中国体育品牌产业竞争力比较研究

根据2008-2010年香港上市的中国六家体育品牌公司三年财务报表数据,运用因子分析法,从变现能力、资产管理能力及盈利能力等六个方面构建了体育品牌产业竞争力评价模型.利用该模型对李宁、安踏、中国动向、匹克、特步以及361度6家在香港上市的中国体育品牌公司产业竞争力进行实证分析,研究发现,虽然中国体育品牌产业竞争力有了很大提升,但是还需要在品牌设计及创新方面进一步努力.     

Exploring Research Data Hosting at the HKUST Institutional Repository

The profusion of data created by modern research has brought about increasing discussion on the practice of data management and the development of such infrastructure. Many universities and libraries are exploring how to address this issue using institutional repositories, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library being one of them. As part of the exploration, the author conducted a case study of datasets at major institutional repositories. This paper visits the issues relating to data archiving, reports common practices of data treatment at institutional repositories, and presents a list of recommendations for experimenting data archiving at the HKUST Institutional Repository.     

On a threshold autoregression with conditional heteroscedastic variances

This paper considers a time series model with a piecewise linear conditional mean and a piecewise linear conditional variance which is a natural extension of Tong's threshold autoregressive model. The model has potential applications in modelling asymmetric behaviour in volatility in the financial market. Conditions for stationarity and ergodicity are derived. Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator and two model diagnostic checking statistics are also presented. An illustrative example based on the Hong Kong Hang Seng index is also reported.     

The Impact of Ovarian Cancer on Life Expectancy in Japan

The purpose of this study was to determine how life expectancy is modified by ovarian cancer from 1950-2000. The contributions of ovarian cancer to life expectancy were estimated. The age characteristics of ovarian cancer were detected using the Gompertz relational mortality model. The patterns between years of potential life lost (YPLL) and mortality were obtained by fitting a linear regression equation to the natural logarithm of their ratios. YPLLs are substantially higher in Ireland than in Japan. However, the rates of change were much higher in Japan than in Ireland. YPLLs changed from 0.02 year in 1950 to 0.12 year in 2000. In Japan, there was a sixfold increase in the proportion of YPLLs for death from ovarian cancer relative to those for death from gynaecological cancers during the last half century. The impact of ovarian cancer on life expectancy clearly increased and the age-specific mortality tend to ageing.     

Detection of structural breaks in a time-varying heteroskedastic regression model

A Bayesian method for estimating a time-varying regression model subject to the presence of structural breaks is proposed. Heteroskedastic dynamics, via both GARCH and stochastic volatility specifications, and an autoregressive factor, subject to breaks, are added to generalize the standard return prediction model, in order to efficiently estimate and examine the relationship and how it changes over time. A Bayesian computational method is employed to identify the locations of structural breaks, and for estimation and inference, simultaneously accounting for heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. The proposed methods are illustrated using simulated data. Then, an empirical study of the Taiwan and Hong Kong stock markets, using oil and gas price returns as a state variable, provides strong support for oil prices being an important explanatory variable for stock returns.     

Exploring Research Data Hosting at the HKUST Institutional Repository

Abstract

The profusion of data created by modern research has brought about increasing discussion on the practice of data management and the development of such infrastructure. Many universities and libraries are exploring how to address this issue using institutional repositories, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library being one of them. As part of the exploration, the author conducted a case study of datasets at major institutional repositories. This paper visits the issues relating to data archiving, reports common practices of data treatment at institutional repositories, and presents a list of recommendations for experimenting data archiving at the HKUST Institutional Repository.     

我国金融业分类及其季度增加值计算研究

本文首先梳理了我国金融业分类的演化,借鉴国际标准产业分类体系（ISIC4.0）、新加坡金融业分类和我国香港金融业分类的基础上,对我国2011年公布的《国民经济行业分类与代码（GB/T4754–2011）》中金融业的分类提出了改进建议;其次,基于改进的金融业分类条件下,分析我国季度金融业增加值计算方法的缺陷,提出了比重模型和回归模型来改进计算方法;最后,利用2008普查年度某地区金融业数据进行实证研究,发现两个模型的计算结果均较准确。