The determinacy of the regression factor score predictor based on continuous parameter estimates from categorical variables

The estimation of population parameters of the continuous common factor model from categorical observed variables is meanwhile regularly performed. It is shown that the formula for the calculation of the determinacy of the regression factor score predictor from the estimated model parameters has to be adapted under these conditions. A method for the calculation of this determinacy from the model parameters of the continuous population factor model based on categorical variables is proposed and evaluated by means of simulated population data. It turns out that using the uncorrected formula can lead to serious overestimation of determinacy for categorical variables.     

高等学校学生成绩分析方法的研究

学生的考试成绩一直是直接评价学生学业的重要标准,也是评价学生综合素质的一个主要指标。综合分析高等学校学生的学习成绩,掌握学生的学习动态,对培养学生成才至关重要。应用软件Microsoft Office Excel研究了综合分析普通高等学校学生成绩的方式,并将分析的结果应用到学生的培养。实践证明,该学习成绩的分析方法可以有效地提高学生的培养成效,在实际应用中可以作为培养学生成才的重要依据,为高等学校培养学生成才提供重要的分析工具。     

基于改进得分函数的直觉模糊多属性决策方法

针对属性权重信息完全未知的直觉模糊多属性决策问题进行了探究,提出了一种综合考虑隶属度、非隶属度以及犹豫度的新的得分函数,利用改进的得分函数将传统的熵权法推广到直觉模糊领域,为属性权重完全未知的直觉模糊多属性决策问题提供了一个新的排序方法。实际的铁路冻害整治算例进一步说明该方法的可行性和有效性。     

A propensity score matching analysis of the relationship between victim sex and capital juror decision-making in North Carolina

A small body of prior research has examined the impact of victim sex on jury death penalty decision-making and the majority of this research has demonstrated some evidence of a “female victim effect” such that cases involving a female victim are more likely to receive the death penalty than similarly situated cases with a male victim. However, within this line of research studies have suggested that victim sex may work in conjunction with other case characteristics. In order to further explore this phenomenon, the current study examines a near-population of death penalty cases from North Carolina (n = 1069) from 1977–2009 using propensity score matching. Results demonstrate that once cases are matched on more than 50 legal and extralegal case characteristics, there is no statistically significant or substantive link between victim sex and death penalty decision-making. Findings suggest that it is concrete differences in the legal and extralegal factors observed in cases with female victims compared to male victims that shape jury death sentence decisions rather than a direct effect of victim sex (before matching: OR = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.20–1.95; p < .001/after matching: OR = 0.90; 95% CI = 0.66–1.24; p = .52). Study limitations and implications are also discussed.     

企业业绩评价方法改进的探讨

企业绩效评价在促进企业改善经营管理、提高经济效益方面具有不可替代的作用。以利润为中心的传统绩效评价指标不能真实地反映公司经营业绩,经济增加值(EVA)和平衡计分卡(BSC)虽然较传统的绩效评价方法有了很大改进,但仍然存在一些不足。将EVA和BSC结合,形成EVA计分卡,运用层次分析法和专家评分法量化指标权重,能较好地评价企业业绩。     

留守经历对新生代农民工工作流动的影响--基于2015年北京市数据的实证检验

本文基于2015年北京市新生代农民工的微观调查数据，在利用倾向得分倒数加权法纠正样本的选择性偏差以后发现：（1）新生代农民工过高的工作流动频率在一定程度上与其普遍的留守经历有关；（2）不同类型的留守形式和留守时间对工作流动的影响有所不同，完全留守、长期留守者表现出更高的工作流动性；（3）相同的留守行为对工作流动的影响存在明显的性别差异，男性农民工更易受到童年时期留守经历的影响。上述结论的政策启示在于：在关注留守经历及其所带来的影响差异的同时，也应避免留守问题的代际传承。     

Estimating the effectiveness of a misdemeanor drug diversion program using propensity score matching and survival analyses

This study analyzes three years of data on misdemeanor drug offenders in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. A portion of these offenders opted into a Misdemeanor Drug Diversion Program (MDDP) offered instead of traditional adjudication. Recidivism in the treatment and comparison groups is estimated using standard binary response techniques augmented with propensity score matching to address selection bias. Results show that the MDDP reduces the probability of re-offense by 16%, after adjusting for possible selection bias. Cox proportional hazard modeling is also used to assess time-to-re-offense differentials between the treatment and comparison groups. The survival analysis indicates that the hazard rate of re-offense is 60% lower per day among those treated with the MDDP program than those who did not complete the program. The average number of days to re-offense among those that do re-offend is 297 days in the treatment group and 203 days in the comparison group.     

Prediction intervals in exponential families

A method for obtaining prediction intervals for an outcome of a future experiment is presented. The method uses hypothesis testing as a tool to derive prediction intervals and assumes that the probability distributions of informative and future experiments are one parameter exponential families. Asymptotic similar mean coverage prediction intervals are derived using the score test as a test statistics. Examples are presented and asymptotic prediction limits are compared with the prediction limits given in the literature.     

Ranking paired contestants

The ranking of paired contestants (players) after a series of contests is difficult when every player does not play every other player. In the 1975 JASA Mark Thompson presented a maximum likelihood solution based on the assumption that the probability of any one player defeating any other is a function only of the difference in their ranks. Here the linear approximation to that likelihood is shown to lead to a nonparametric measure of the efficacy of the ranking, called the net difference in ranks (NDR) , which is the sum of the differences in ranks of the paired players in the observed contests that agree with the ranking minus the sum of the differences in ranks in the observed contests that disagree with the ranking (upsets) . The subject is part of a large literature that has been consolidated by H.A. David in The Method of Paired Comparisons (1963, 1988). The method was introduced by the psychophysicist Fechner in 1860 and has been widely applied to sensory testing,