BATHTUB-TYPE CURVES IN RELIABILITY AND BEYOND

Finding optimal, or at least good, maintenance and repair policies is crucial in reliability engineering. Likewise, describing life phases of human mortality is important when determining social policy or insurance premiums. In these tasks, one searches for distributions to fit data and then makes inferences about the population(s). In the present paper, we focus on bathtub‐type distributions and provide a view of certain problems, methods and solutions, and a few challenges, that can be encountered in reliability engineering, survival analysis, demography and actuarial science.     

谈分级显性意义假说对反语中的认知参照点的解释力

本文运用Giora的分级显性意义假说分析了Langacker的认知参照点理论，并对反语中的认知参照点进行分析，得出反语中的认知参照点也是层级突显的结论，为反语的理解提供一个新的视角。     

四川长虹打造产业航母的战略构想

长虹公司是四川省最大的优势企业之一,本文分析了长虹的优势和不足之处,提出了长虹打造产业航母的战略构想和政府在长虹打造产业航母中应发挥的作用及相应的政策建议。     

绿色营销与企业可持续发展

绿色营销是企业可持续发展的最终实现途径。本文揭示市场经济条件下,实施绿色营销的必然性;探讨企业的可持续发展问题的实质和解决办法;提出推行绿色营销促进企业可持续发展的对策思路。     

Causal Reasoning from Longitudinal Data*

Abstract. This paper reviews some of the key statistical ideas that are encountered when trying to find empirical support to causal interpretations and conclusions, by applying statistical methods on experimental or observational longitudinal data. In such data, typically a collection of individuals are followed over time, then each one has registered a sequence of covariate measurements along with values of control variables that in the analysis are to be interpreted as causes, and finally the individual outcomes or responses are reported. Particular attention is given to the potentially important problem of confounding. We provide conditions under which, at least in principle, unconfounded estimation of the causal effects can be accomplished. Our approach for dealing with causal problems is entirely probabilistic, and we apply Bayesian ideas and techniques to deal with the corresponding statistical inference. In particular, we use the general framework of marked point processes for setting up the probability models, and consider posterior predictive distributions as providing the natural summary measures for assessing the causal effects. We also draw connections to relevant recent work in this area, notably to Judea Pearl's formulations based on graphical models and his calculus of so‐called do‐probabilities. Two examples illustrating different aspects of causal reasoning are discussed in detail.     

Shrinkage confidence intervals for the normal mean: Using a guess for greater efficiency

If the unknown mean of a univariate population is sufficiently close to the value of an initial guess then an appropriate shrinkage estimator has smaller average squared error than the sample mean. This principle has been known for some time, but it does not appear to have found extension to problems of interval estimation. The author presents valid two‐sided 95% and 99% “shrinkage” confidence intervals for the mean of a normal distribution. These intervals are narrower than the usual interval based on the Student distribution when the population mean lies in such an “effective interval.” A reduction of 20% in the mean width of the interval is possible when the population mean is sufficiently close to the value of the guess. The author also describes a modification to existing shrinkage point estimators of the general univariate mean that enables the effective interval to be enlarged.     

而今迈步从头越--写在《云南民族大学学报》(哲学社会科学版)创刊20周年之际

《云南民族大学学报》走过了20年的发展历程。正值20岁生日时,随着学校的更名,学报有了新的名称,赋予了新的意义:一流的大学需要一流的学报。认真总结20年的办刊经验,坚持刊物的特色和品位,以更名为契机,努力开创学报工作的新局面,这是时代赋予我们的使命。     

增算子不动点定理及其应用

本文建立了若干新的增算子不动点存在定理,作为应用,作者研究了在Banach空间中一类含间断项Volterra积分方程解的存在性,我们的结果改进和推广了诸多已知结果。     

隐含合约和专用资产投资:日本分包制研究

日本制造业中,制造商往往和其零部件供应商形成长期连续交易关系,彼此之间紧密协作,形成系列化的企业集团。在这种企业集团内部,零部件供应商有更大的激励进行专用资产的投资,进而降低生产成本,提高产品质量。甚至在适当的条件下,供应商直接参与零部件产品的设计。这种日本式的分包制采用一种隐含的承包合约形成长期连续交易关系,使企业之间能更好的合作,极大的提高了日本企业集团的竞争力。本文建立一个简单的模型,引入一种简单隐含合约的形式,即发包商给予承包商部分议价权利,在此基础上分析承包商专用资产投资行为,并对上述现象进行解释。     

“十一五”期间江苏安全生产面临的潜在风险、主要特征及其防范对策

“安全生产风险”是指在生产过程中因安全生产隐患可能引发的,致使大面积生命财产安全遭受重大损失的灾难性社会后果,它已成为现代社会典型的“社会风险”之一。“十一五”期间,江苏安全生产仍面临危险化学品灾害、人员密集场所特大事故及道路桥梁安全隐患三大潜在风险的挑战。江苏安全生产潜在风险具有分布行业的差异性、表现形式的多样性、诱发原因的趋同性、识别信号的隐蔽性、防范要求的系统性等主要特征。防范安全生产风险应在实施“科学发展”战略、深化专项整治、加强源头治理、建立健全安全生产控制指标体系与安全生产激励约束机制等方面制定相应对策。