Marginal Regression of Gaps Between Recurrent Events

Recurrent event data typically exhibit the phenomenon of intra-individual correlation, owing to not only observed covariates but also random effects. In many applications, the population may be reasonably postulated as a heterogeneous mixture of individual renewal processes, and the inference of interest is the effect of individual-level covariates. In this article, we suggest and investigate a marginal proportional hazards model for gaps between recurrent events. A connection is established between observed gap times and clustered survival data with informative cluster size. We subsequently construct a novel and general inference procedure for the latter, based on a functional formulation of standard Cox regression. Large-sample theory is established for the proposed estimators. Numerical studies demonstrate that the procedure performs well with practical sample sizes. Application to the well-known bladder tumor data is given as an illustration.     

Evaluation of a tobacco prevention program on knowledge, attitudes, intention and behavior of tobacco use among fourth grade students--a preliminary study

This was a preliminary study to evaluate the effectiveness of a tobacco prevention program on knowledge, attitude, intention, and behavior of tobacco use among fourth-grade students in four north central Florida counties. The results suggest that the program was effective in improving students' knowledge, attitudes, and intention toward not using tobacco products. Data analysis showed that students in the education group had a greater improvement in knowledge than the comparison group. Students in the education group also improved their attitude and intention scores while the comparison group did not show any improvement. The results also indicated positive responses from the students. In addition, teachers also gave a very positive response to the program.     

浅析当代中国农村基层民主建设兴起的时代背景

以"村民自治"为主要内容的中国农村基层民主建设能够在中国兴起,既是当今世界改革与民主化浪潮的不断推动、中国政治民主化进程的必然要求,也是中国社会经济文化发展的必然结果.     

论邓小平“解放思想”的战略意义

邓小平“解放思想”理论是开辟新时期新道路的宣言书 ,具有划时代的重大意义 :建立了一个新的中央领导集体 ;确立了一条新的党的基本路线 ;创立了一个建设有中国特色社会主义的新理论 ;开辟了一条建设社会主义的新道路     

论网络对当前高校思想政治教育的影响

随着信息的全球化和直通化 ,网络日益显露出它快捷、灵通和多功能的优越性 ,并且其发展变化异常迅猛。不容置疑 ,网络确实扩大了人们的视野使整个世界成为了一个小小的地球村 ,但它对我们产生的影响也应引起我们的重视 ,尤其重视它对当前高校思想政治教育工作的影响     

试论鲁迅的文化性格及其越文化印痕

新世纪的鲁迅研究应该进一步"回到鲁迅那儿去",要重视鲁迅自身,重视鲁迅身上最恒定的,最富于个性色彩的,明显的与他人有别的带有基本特征的东西,如鲁迅的文化性格和鲁迅身上的越文化印痕就是值得我们关注的两个问题.鲁迅之为鲁迅,是由于他有特殊的文化性格,即独立自由的现代人格精神,这种文化性格不仅仅在殖民地半殖民地时代,而且在这之后仍然是中国人民最可宝贵的性格.形成鲁迅宝贵的文化性格的原因是多方面的,其中我们可以发现越文化深层的印痕.     

A study on cyclic bandwidth sum

Suppose G is a graph of p vertices. A proper labeling f of G is a one-to-one mapping f:V(G)→{1,2,…,p}. The cyclic bandwidth sum of G with respect to f is defined by CBS _f (G)=∑ _uv∈E(G)|f(v)−f(u)| _p , where |x| _p =min {|x|,p−|x|}. The cyclic bandwidth sum of G is defined by CBS(G)=min {CBS _f (G): f is a proper labeling of G}. The bandwidth sum of G with respect to f is defined by BS _f (G)=∑ _uv∈E(G)|f(v)−f(u)|. The bandwidth sum of G is defined by BS(G)=min {BS _f (G): f is a proper labeling of G}. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for BS(G)=CBS(G), and use this to show that BS(T)=CBS(T) when T is a tree. We also find cyclic bandwidth sums of complete bipartite graphs. Dedicated to Professor Frank K. Hwang on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Supported in part by the National Science Council under grants NSC91-2115-M-156-001.