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。     

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。     

国内外学前儿童计算思维研究述评

人工智能时代,计算思维已成为21世纪个体的必备素养。近年来,人们开始逐渐意识到从儿童早期培养计算思维的重要性,从小开始培养儿童的计算思维已成为世界各国的共识。然而,当前尚未对学前儿童计算思维的研究进行全面系统地梳理。因此,本研究结合文献计量法与内容分析法,对来自国内外核心数据库中的30篇实证研究进行了系统梳理,以此全面地了解国内外学前儿童计算思维培养的研究现状与发展趋势。与此同时,立足现状提出了对策与展望。     

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.     

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.     

Adaptive Build-up and Breakdown of Trust: An Agent Based Computational Approach

This article employs Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate whether, and under what conditions, trust is viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents develop trust in a partner as a function of observed loyalty. They select partners on the basis of their trust in the partner and potential profit, with adaptive weights. On the basis of realized profits, they adapt the weight they attach to trust relative to profitability, and their own trustworthiness, modeled as a threshold of defection. Trust and loyalty turn out to be viable under fairly general conditions.     

Minimal Tetrahedralizations of a Class of Polyhedra

Given a simple polyhedron P in the three dimensional Euclidean space, different tetrahedralizations of P may contain different numbers of tetrahedra. The minimal tetrahedralization is a tetrahedralization with the minimum number of tetrahedra. In this paper, we present some properties of the graph of polyhedra. Then we identify a class of polyhedra and show that this kind of polyhedra can be minimally tetrahedralized in O(n ²) time.     

Contingent constellations: African urban complexity seen through the workings of a Ghanaian bus station

In this article, I explore the intricate relationship between regulation and contingency in processes of urban economic organisation by focusing on the workings of a central bus station in Accra, Ghana. After introducing the position of the station in Ghana’s urban economy and transport infrastructure, I set out its internal regulative arrangements in relation to larger socio-economic and political constellations the practices of the station workers are contingent upon. Next, I turn the analysis around and describe the ways in which people accommodate themselves within, exploit and thereby co-produce emergent contingencies. The focus on the station, I suggest, offers a window into the complex constituents of niche economic practices that prevail in many spheres of African cities and allows a nuanced reflection on the incongruous and undetermined dynamics of everyday urban ‘becomings.’     

复杂性科学视角下企业成长研究梳理与启示

作为研究和处理复杂系统和行为的工具，复杂性科学为企业成长研究提供了新的起点。从复杂性科学的背景出发，总结了目前企业成长研究的基本共识、内容体系，并为企业管理与决策实践提供指导。