Confidence intervals,significance values,maximum likelihood estimates,etc. sharpened into Occam’s razors

Abstract

Confidence sets, p values, maximum likelihood estimates, and other results of non-Bayesian statistical methods may be adjusted to favor sampling distributions that are simple compared to others in the parametric family. The adjustments are derived from a prior likelihood function previously used to adjust posterior distributions.     

对目前我国私营企业主阶层的思考

如何促进私营经济持续稳定健康发展、引导私营企业主阶层成为坚定的社会主义事业的建设者是当前乃至今后一个较长时期内我国社会政治生活中的一个重大课题。为此一要充分认识私营经济和私营企业主阶层存在的长期性 ,采取切实有效的措施谋划私营经济的新发展 ;二要充分认识私营企业主阶层的特殊性 ,正确把握评价私营企业主政治上进步与否的判断标准 ;三要充分认识私营企业主阶层的复杂性 ,坚持德治与法治相结合 ,使其成为坚定的社会主义事业的建设者。     

关于中国历史文献学基本理论的几点认识

中国历史文献学是一门以历史文献及其整理研究工作为研究对象的,以复原、求真和致用为主要任务的专科文献学。其研究范围主要包括:学科基本理论、历史文献及其产生发展过程、研究和整理历史文献的方法以及中国历史文献学发展史。它从属于历史学,具有综合性、基础性和实践性的突出特点。作为一门古老而又年轻的学科,中国历史文献学面临着加强学科理论建设、实现研究手段现代化等多重任务和发展趋向。     

我国高等教育政治社会化的独特性探索

我国高等教育的政治社会化以其独特性反映赋予个人特定的政治人格和政治能力、影响政治文化和政治体系的形成、维持和改变的普遍适用性。具体表现为要对大学生对象身心发展过渡期、个性知识系统、政治精英情结的独特性;任务上要落实引导大学生产生高层次主流意识形态认同、努力成为积极公民、形成与主流意识形态适应的校园政治文化的独特性;实践上要充分发挥理想化与现实可能性、单一途径和多种途径、弘扬主流文化与正确对待亚文化、个体自我要求与团队强制要求相结合的独特性。     

插入排序法研究(1)

讨论了两种二路插入排序的方法，给出了算法思想，分析了这些方法的时间复杂度，其平均时间复杂度比直接插入排序法降低了1/2-1/2，说明这些排序方法比直接插入排序法具有较高的排序效率。     

On the difficulty of making social choices

The difficulty of making social choices seems to take on two forms: one that is related to both preferences and the method used in aggregating them and one which is related to the preferences only. In the former type the difficulty has to do with the discrepancies of outcomes resulting from various preference aggregation methods and the computation of winners in elections. Some approaches and results which take their motivation from the computability theory are discussed. The latter institution-free type of difficulty pertains to solution theory of the voting games. We discuss the relationships between various solution concepts, e.g. uncovered set, Banks set, Copeland winners. Finally rough sets are utilized in an effort to measure the difficulty of making social choices.     

The Sandwich Generation: Dependency, Proximity, and Task Assistance Needs of Parents

This study was designed to determine the extent of sandwiched families and the impact of dependency and proximity to task assistance provided to parent(s). Data were collected in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Michigan from a random sample of 40–65-year-old respondents. Fifteen percent are sandwiched between needs of aging parents and financially dependent children. Respondents are much more likely to be providing assistance to mothers than fathers. Parents are most likely to live near, but not necessarily with, the respondent. Spouses and partners' parents, however, are likely to live farther away. Task assistance provided most often to aging parent(s) includes help with transportation and shopping; financial assistance was reported least often. Income of respondent and dependency and proximity of parents are significantly related to providing assistance to parents. This study offers a unique glimpse at the relationships between personal characteristics, dependency, proximity, and task assistance issues as they pertain to the sandwich generation.     

Cybernetic Risk Analysis

The Pearl Harbor case study reveals that risk analysis failure may be caused by any of a number of factors. However, the most important variables are system load, gain, lead time, and lag time. The dynamics of such cybernetic systems analysis constitute an important aspect in this regard. Four different risk management strategies, or organization designs, have been proposed in this paper. Each has a unique combination of the imputed variables and each has a unique cause of surprise, risk analysis failure, and crisis.     

组织成员绩效结构理论研究述评

在过去的许多年,对工作绩效的研究出现了许多问题,不断重复的实证研究以及在工作绩效结构研究方面的混乱状态引起了学者们的严厉批评.这方面的研究主要包括组织公民行为、亲社会组织行为、关系绩效和任务绩效、角色行为和角色外行为以及任务绩效和非任务绩效.正是这些理论导致我们对工作绩效范围的重新思考.继续将非任务绩效看作是超越工作范畴或正式系统的非报酬行为是没有益处的.文章对组织成员行为绩效的主要成果给予介绍和评价,其主要目的是综合国内外现存文献,以便于将来学者们研究.     

Demand for gambling: development and assessment of a gambling purchase task

Self-report purchase tasks are a novel approach examining the reinforcing value of addictive behaviour relative to increasing monetary costs required to access the addictive behaviour (i.e. demand). These measures reveal a positive relationship between the indices of demand and addiction problem severity and can elucidate factors associated with motivation for substance use. Gambling is an addictive behaviour that has not been examined using this paradigm. This study seeks to adapt and examine the purchase task for gambling behaviour. A gambling purchase task was devised that asked individuals how often per month they would gamble at various cover charges. Participants were 73 adults from the community with either gambling disorder (n = 28) or alcohol use disorder (n = 24) or were a healthy control (n = 21). Both the alcohol and gambling purchase tasks were administered. Results demonstrate discriminant validity of the gambling purchase task, as individuals with gambling disorder have significantly greater demand for accessing gambling than other groups. The alcohol purchase task also evidenced discriminant validity in that individuals with alcohol use disorder have significantly greater demand for alcohol than other groups. These findings support the use of the gambling purchase task to assess the demand for gambling.