The analytic construction of D-optimal designs for the two-variable binary logistic regression model without interaction

Candidate locally D-optimal designs for the binary two-variable logistic model with no interaction, which comprise 3 and 4 support points lying in the first quadrant of the two-dimensional Euclidean space, were introduced by Haines et al. (D-optimal designs for logistic regression in two variables. In: Lopez-Fidalgo J, Rodrigez-Diaz JM, Torsney B, editors. MODA8 – advances in model-oriented designs and analysis. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag; 2007. p. 91–98). The authors proved algebraically the global D-optimality of the 3-point design for the special case in which the intercept parameter is equal to?1.5434. However for other selected values of the intercept parameter, the global D-optimality of the proposed 3- and 4-point designs was only demonstrated numerically. In this paper, we provide analytical proofs of the D-optimality of these 3- and 4-point designs for all negative and zero intercept parameters of the binary two-variable logistic model with no interaction. The results are extended to the construction of D-optimal designs on a rectangular design space and illustrated by means of two examples of which one is a real example taken from the literature.     

基金发行潮与管理公司绩效

区别于传统以基金作为独立个体的研究,本文以基金的母体——基金家族作为研究对象,重点考察以下问题:为何基金家族纷纷发行新基金?基金家族的迅速繁衍是否损害了其投资绩效?文章从理论上探讨了基金家族热衷于发行新基金的原因。并运用随机前沿分析(SFA)方法,以测算基金家族投资绩效为切入点,重点检验了新基金发行对家族业绩的影响。发现基金家族总体业绩偏低,新基金发行在短期能提高家族业绩,在长期会损害家族业绩。为此,文章进一步探讨了新基金发行对家族业绩的门槛效应。发现要有效促进基金家族业绩,单个基金家族半年内新发行基金数不能超过3只,其旗下基金总数不能超过11只。根据研究成果,文章提出了相关政策建议。     

Construction of Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Ratios of Means of Lognormal Distributions

For constructing simultaneous confidence intervals for ratios of means for lognormal distributions, two approaches using a two-step method of variance estimates recovery are proposed. The first approach proposes fiducial generalized confidence intervals (FGCIs) in the first step followed by the method of variance estimates recovery (MOVER) in the second step (FGCIs–MOVER). The second approach uses MOVER in the first and second steps (MOVER–MOVER). Performance of proposed approaches is compared with simultaneous fiducial generalized confidence intervals (SFGCIs). Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the performance of these approaches in terms of coverage probability, average interval width, and time consumption.     

Unit Root Tests in the Presence of Multi-Variance Break and Level Shifts That Have Power Against the Piecewise Stationary Alternative

Structural breaks in the level as well as in the volatility have often been exhibited in economic time series. In this paper, we propose new unit root tests when a time series has multiple shifts in its level and the corresponding volatility. The proposed tests are Lagrangian multiplier type tests based on the residual's marginal likelihood which is free from the nuisance mean parameters. The limiting null distributions of the proposed tests are the χ²distributions, and are affected not by the size and the location of breaks but only by the number of breaks.

We set the structural breaks under both the null and the alternative hypotheses to relieve a possible vagueness in interpreting test results in empirical work. The null hypothesis implies a unit root process with level shifts and the alternative connotes a stationary process with level shifts. The Monte Carlo simulation shows that our tests are locally more powerful than the OLSE-based tests, and that the powers of our tests, in a fixed time span, remain stable regardless the number of breaks. In our application, we employ the data which are analyzed by Perron (1990), and some results differ from those of Perron's (1990).     

Estimating the Size of Street-Dwelling Populations Using Mark-Resighting Counts

Mark-resighting constitutes an advanced technology for estimating animal abundance. Joint hypergeometric maximum likelihood, Minta-Mangel and Bowden estimators are usually adopted with mark-resighting data. In presence of any tendency of animals to aggregate into groups, the Bowden estimator is the sole reliable method, providing that marks are quite evenly distributed among groups. In some cetacean surveys, marking disturbances are avoided through natural marking. Natural marking with Bowden criterion is used to estimate the abundance of street-dwelling populations. The marked individuals are persons identified and recorded in the initial part of the survey and recognizable in subsequent occasions. A simulation helps determine the performance of the Bowden estimator under a wide set of situations, taking into account key features of street-dwelling populations. When marked individuals are evenly distributed among groups, the strategy is efficient.     

安徽省市域经济增长质量动态模糊综合评价——基于改进的AHP-FCE集成模型

基于评价指标提供的信息和运用改进的AHP-FCE集成模型对2002—2011年间安徽省各市经济增长质量进行了动态模糊综合评价。从构建的描述经济增长质量5个维度的指标体系中选取了8个代表性指标,建立模糊关系矩阵并优化生成客观权重,由模糊合成运算得到动态综合评价结果。通过各市经济增长质量动态综合评价值、最大序差和影响因素分析,显示出安徽省市域经济增长质量在10年间的动态变化轨迹和区域性差异,只有个别城市处于经济增长质量的核心区域,更多的城市则处于经济增长质量的＂跳跃＂区域,经济增长质量的各维度发展程度不均衡。     

基于VAR模型的安徽省粮食产量影响因素的实证研究

自然条件、政策环境、经济因素、技术进步等因素都会影响粮食产量。选取安徽省1990-2012年影响粮食生产的7个因素,最初,使用前向逐步回归分析的方法研究发现,对粮食产量影响较大的因素有粮食成灾面积、有效灌溉面积、化肥施用量3个变量。其次,Johansen协整检验阐释了这3个变量与粮食总产量之间的关系,并构造脉冲响应函数及进行方差分解得出这3个变量对总产量的贡献度为：粮食成灾面积〉化肥施用量〉有效灌溉面积。所以,增强农业工程的防灾减灾效果,提升农田水利基础设施的使用效率,科学控制化肥施用量对提高安徽省粮食综合生产能力具有重大作用。     

论唐代节度使的兴起和演变

唐代节度使的兴起和演变自有其特定的缘由 :从经济和军事方面看 ,因均田制的破坏而引起府兵制的瓦解 ,改变了过去兵农合一 ,寓兵于农的特点 ;从政治方面看 ,玄宗朝中后期的朝政腐败 ,使中央政府统治力量每况愈下 ;从社会方面看 ,在唐王朝中央力量削弱的同时 ,周边少数民族势力却在逐渐增强。所有这些都给节度使的出现和割据局面的形成创造了客观条件。