Marginal and association regression models for longitudinal binary data with drop‐outs: A likelihood‐based approach

Longitudinal data often contain missing observations, and it is in general difficult to justify particular missing data mechanisms, whether random or not, that may be hard to distinguish. The authors describe a likelihood‐based approach to estimating both the mean response and association parameters for longitudinal binary data with drop‐outs. They specify marginal and dependence structures as regression models which link the responses to the covariates. They illustrate their approach using a data set from the Waterloo Smoking Prevention Project They also report the results of simulation studies carried out to assess the performance of their technique under various circumstances.     

国际刑事法院的管辖权与美伊战争

依据国际法,主权国家可以对危害国际社会共同利益的国际罪行行使普遍管辖权。但是,从以往的国际实践来看,这种间接管辖的方式效果不尽人意。特别是对某些特定的国际罪行,如战争罪,侵略罪,种族灭绝罪,危害人类罪等等。在国际刑事法院建立之后,这些国际人道法中的罪行在法定条件下可以由国际刑事法院直接管辖。国际刑事法院必须尊重国内法院的管辖权,并符合相应的条件。本文试图讨论2003年的美伊战争中是否存在违反国际人道法的行为,这些行为是否可成为国际刑事法院管辖的对象。     

明星制：中国影视业发展的有效途径

明星制是好莱坞电影工业化和社会化的重要标志。新世纪以来的中国电影电视业已走向产业化发展道路,中国明星制的建立完善已成为不可回避的问题。明星制中的明星打造、追星族的社会心理、明星双面效应以及中国本土明星制的完善健全等问题都值得我们探讨研究。     

HEAVY-TAILED-DISTRIBUTED THRESHOLD STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELS IN FINANCIAL TIME SERIES

To capture mean and variance asymmetries and time‐varying volatility in financial time series, we generalize the threshold stochastic volatility (THSV) model and incorporate a heavy‐tailed error distribution. Unlike existing stochastic volatility models, this model simultaneously accounts for uncertainty in the unobserved threshold value and in the time‐delay parameter. Self‐exciting and exogenous threshold variables are considered to investigate the impact of a number of market news variables on volatility changes. Adopting a Bayesian approach, we use Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to estimate all unknown parameters and latent variables. A simulation experiment demonstrates good estimation performance for reasonable sample sizes. In a study of two international financial market indices, we consider two variants of the generalized THSV model, with US market news as the threshold variable. Finally, we compare models using Bayesian forecasting in a value‐at‐risk (VaR) study. The results show that our proposed model can generate more accurate VaR forecasts than can standard models.     

Test for homogeneity in Hardy–Weinberg normal mixture model

The phenotype of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) is often modeled by a finite mixture of normal distributions. If the QTL effect depends on the number of copies of a specific allele one carries, then the mixture model has three components. In this case, the mixing proportions have a binomial structure according to the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. In the search for QTL, a significance test of homogeneity against the Hardy–Weinberg normal mixture model alternative is an important first step. The LOD score method, a likelihood ratio test used in genetics, is a favored choice. However, there is not yet a general theory for the limiting distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic in the presence of unknown variance. This paper derives the limiting distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic, which can be described by the supremum of a quadratic form of a Gaussian process. Further, the result implies that the distribution of the modified likelihood ratio statistic is well approximated by a chi-squared distribution. Simulation results show that the approximation has satisfactory precision for the cases considered. We also give a real-data example.     

景颇族居住环境及文化分析

影响居住环境的有地理和人文两大因素。该文在分析景颇族居住环境的基础上 ,通过对组成景颇族居住环境的地貌、植物、建筑、小品、装饰、民族风情广场等要素的特色进一步地分析 ,探讨了景颇族文化的内涵。尝试为多元化的现代园林设计提供富有民族特色的素材。     

网络经济对企业管理的影响

网络经济的产生 ,对社会经济生活的方方面面都带来了巨大的影响 ,处在工业经济向网络经济转轨时期的企业 ,更面临着众多的挑战和机遇。企业外部的生存与发展环境和内部组织结构都将发生新的变化 ,信息和知识日益成为企业生产经营的关键要素 ,网络经济对企业的管理目标、管理理念、管理内容、管理方法与手段都将产生重大影响。     

LiNbO_3电光调制器行波电极优化设计

分析了厚电极厚缓冲层的共面波导Mach-Zehnder行波电极LiNbO3光调制器,讨论了电极厚度和缓冲层厚度对调制器特性参数的影响,得到了调制器的有效折射率、特征阻抗、半波电压及损耗系数等参数。通过对比分析,选择合适的电极厚度和缓冲层厚度,优化调制器性能,近似满足速度和阻抗匹配,实现了图宽带调制。     

Robustness of testing the equality of two slopes in simple linear structural relationships

The usual test of the equality of two slopes in a simple structural relation-ship is the test formed from the normal approximation using the Fisher information matrix, assuming two explanatory variables are independent. This paper examines the robustness if the explanatory variables are, in fact, dependent. A more efficient estimator is derived for a matched pair situation.     

CCD图象检测信号的失真校正

本文从CCD图象输入系统误差引起图象检测信号失真的原因分析出发,以降低系统装校误差精度要求和增大元器件离散性的宽容度为目标,讨论朱真校正方法的原理和数学描述。最后,介绍两种失真校正方法。