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Mdc-R-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe Nov 2014

Mdc-R-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data: R code in book provided for use


Simulating Burr Type Vii Distributions Through The Method Of L-Moments And L-Correlations, Mohan D. Pant, Todd C. Headrick Aug 2014

Simulating Burr Type Vii Distributions Through The Method Of L-Moments And L-Correlations, Mohan D. Pant, Todd C. Headrick

Mohan Dev Pant

Burr Type VII, a one-parameter non-normal distribution, is among the less studied distributions, especially, in the contexts of statistical modeling and simulation studies. The main purpose of this study is to introduce a methodology for simulating univariate and multivariate Burr Type VII distributions through the method of L-moments and L-correlations. The methodology can be applied in statistical modeling of events in a variety of applied mathematical contexts and Monte Carlo simulation studies. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate that L-moment-based Burr Type VII distributions are superior to their conventional moment-based analogs in terms of distribution fitting and estimation. Simulation results …


Asimmetria Del Rischio Sistematico Dei Titolo Immobiliari Americani: Nuove Evidenze Econometriche, Paola De Santis, Carlo Drago Jul 2014

Asimmetria Del Rischio Sistematico Dei Titolo Immobiliari Americani: Nuove Evidenze Econometriche, Paola De Santis, Carlo Drago

Carlo Drago

In questo lavoro riscontriamo un aumento del rischio sistematico dei titoli del mercato immobiliare americano nell’anno 2007 seguito da un ritorno ai valori iniziali nell’anno 2009 e si evidenzia la possibile presenza di break strutturali. Per valutare il suddetto rischio sistematico è stato scelto il modello a tre fattori di Fama e French ed è stata studiata la relazione tra l’extra rendimento dell’indice REIT, utilizzato come proxy dell’andamento dei titoli immobiliari americani, e l’extra rendimento dell’indice S&P500 rappresentativo del rendimento del portafoglio di mercato. I risultati confermano la presenza di un “Asymmetric REIT Beta Puzzle” coerentemente con alcuni precedenti studi …


Mcd - Stata Commands, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd - Stata Commands, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Stata commands and affiliated files for examples in book. Text file explanation of command names is included. 103 files in total


Mcd-Description, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd-Description, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data - description of Data Files with examples using R, Stata and SAS


Mcd-Information-, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd-Information-, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data - Information about book and resources


Mcd - 11 R Data Files From Book, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd - 11 R Data Files From Book, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data: ZIP file with 11 R data files from book


Mcd - 11 Stata Data Files, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd - 11 Stata Data Files, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data: 11 Stata files from book


Hilbe-Mcd-Cvs-Data, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Hilbe-Mcd-Cvs-Data, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data, data files from book in CVS format


Mcd Information, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd Information, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Information on Modeling Count Data


Mcd Description Data Files: Stata-R-Sas-Excel, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd Description Data Files: Stata-R-Sas-Excel, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data: Description of Data Files R, Stata, SAS examples


Mcd-Figures-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd-Figures-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data, code for Figures in book - R and Stata


Mdc-Sas-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mdc-Sas-Code, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data, SAS files for download and use


Mcd-Data-Sas, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2014

Mcd-Data-Sas, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Modeling Count Data, 11 SAS data files. SAS users


A General Framework For Uncertainty Propagation Based On Point Estimate Methods, René Schenkendorf Jul 2014

A General Framework For Uncertainty Propagation Based On Point Estimate Methods, René Schenkendorf

René Schenkendorf

A general framework to approach the challenge of uncertainty propagation in model based prognostics is presented in this work. It is shown how the so-called Point Estimate Meth- ods (PEMs) are ideally suited for this purpose because of the following reasons: 1) A credible propagation and represen- tation of Gaussian (normally distributed) uncertainty can be done with a minimum of computational effort for non-linear applications. 2) Also non-Gaussian uncertainties can be prop- agated by evaluating suitable transfer functions inherently. 3) Confidence intervals of simulation results can be derived which do not have to be symmetrically distributed around the mean value …


Measuring Gender Difference In Information Sharing Using Network Analysis: The Case Of The Austrian Interlocking Directorship Network In 2009, Carlo Drago, Livia Amidani Aliberti, Davide Carbonai Jul 2014

Measuring Gender Difference In Information Sharing Using Network Analysis: The Case Of The Austrian Interlocking Directorship Network In 2009, Carlo Drago, Livia Amidani Aliberti, Davide Carbonai

Carlo Drago

In recent literature a relevant problem has been the relationship between career/personal contact networks and different career paths. In addition the recent advances in social capital theory have shown the way in which networks impact on personal careers. In particular women’s careers appear to be negatively affected by the informational network structure. The main contribution of this work is to propose empirical evidence of this phenomenon by considering the gendered directorship network with relation to Austria and to show the structural differences by gender in the network. By using community detection techniques we have found various communities in which females …


Errata - Logistic Regression Models, Joseph Hilbe May 2014

Errata - Logistic Regression Models, Joseph Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Errata for Logistic Regression Models, 4th Printing


The Modified R A Robust Measure Of Association For Time Series, Muhammad Irfan Malik Apr 2014

The Modified R A Robust Measure Of Association For Time Series, Muhammad Irfan Malik

irfan.phdet24@iiu.edu.pk

Since times of Yule (1926), it is known that correlation between two time series can produce spurious results. Granger and Newbold (1974) see the roots of spurious correlation in non-stationarity of the time series. However the study of Granger, Hyung and Jeon (2001) prove that spurious correlation also exists in stationary time series. These facts make the correlation coefficient an unreliable measure of association. This paper proposes ‘Modified R’ as an alternate measure of association for the time series. The Modified R is robust to the type of stationarity and type of deterministic part in the time series. The performance …


Interpretation And Prediction Of A Logistic Model, Joseph M. Hilbe Mar 2014

Interpretation And Prediction Of A Logistic Model, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

A basic overview of how to model and interpret a logistic regression model, as well as how to obtain the predicted probability or fit of the model and calculate its confidence intervals. R code used for all examples; some Stata is provided as a contrast.


Simulating Univariate And Multivariate Tukey G-And-H Distributions Based On The Method Of Percentiles, Tzu-Chun Kou, Todd C. Headrick Jan 2014

Simulating Univariate And Multivariate Tukey G-And-H Distributions Based On The Method Of Percentiles, Tzu-Chun Kou, Todd C. Headrick

Todd Christopher Headrick

This paper derives closed-form solutions for the 𝑔-and-ℎ shape parameters associated with the Tukey family of distributions based on the method of percentiles (MOP). A proposed MOP univariate procedure is described and compared with the method of moments (MOM) in the context of distribution fitting and estimating skew and kurtosis functions. The MOP methodology is also extended from univariate to multivariate data generation. A procedure is described for simulating nonnormal distributions with specified Spearman correlations. The MOP procedure has an advantage over the MOM because it does not require numerical integration to compute intermediate correlations. Simulation results demonstrate that the …


Errata And Comments For Methods Of Statistical Model Estimation, Joseph M. Hilbe, Andew P. Robinson Jan 2014

Errata And Comments For Methods Of Statistical Model Estimation, Joseph M. Hilbe, Andew P. Robinson

Joseph M Hilbe

Errata and comments for Hilbe and Robinson's Methods of Statistical Model Estimation, Chapman & Hall/CRC (2013)


Optimizing Sedative Dose In Preterm Infants Undergoing Treatment For Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Peter F. Thall Jan 2014

Optimizing Sedative Dose In Preterm Infants Undergoing Treatment For Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Peter F. Thall

Peter F. Thall

No abstract provided.


Bayesian Joint Selection Of Genes And Pathways: Applications In Multiple Myeloma Genomics, Lin Zhang, Jeffrey S. Morris, Jiexin Zhang, Robert Orlowski, Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani Jan 2014

Bayesian Joint Selection Of Genes And Pathways: Applications In Multiple Myeloma Genomics, Lin Zhang, Jeffrey S. Morris, Jiexin Zhang, Robert Orlowski, Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

Jeffrey S. Morris

It is well-established that the development of a disease, especially cancer, is a complex process that results from the joint effects of multiple genes involved in various molecular signaling pathways. In this article, we propose methods to discover genes and molecular pathways significantly associ- ated with clinical outcomes in cancer samples. We exploit the natural hierarchal structure of genes related to a given pathway as a group of interacting genes to conduct selection of both pathways and genes. We posit the problem in a hierarchical structured variable selection (HSVS) framework to analyze the corresponding gene expression data. HSVS methods conduct …


Sas Macro: Testing Marginal Homogeneity In Clustered Matched-Pair Data, Zhao Yang Jan 2014

Sas Macro: Testing Marginal Homogeneity In Clustered Matched-Pair Data, Zhao Yang

Zhao (Tony) Yang, Ph.D.

The SAS Macro and simulated data example are used to demonstrate the application of tests for marginal homogeneity in clustered matched-pair data.


Sas Macro: Weighted Kappa Statistic For Clustered Matched-Pair Ordinal Data, Zhao Yang Jan 2014

Sas Macro: Weighted Kappa Statistic For Clustered Matched-Pair Ordinal Data, Zhao Yang

Zhao (Tony) Yang, Ph.D.

This SAS macro calculate the weighted kappa statistic and its corresponding non-parametric variance estimator for the clustered matched-pair ordinal data.


Sas Macro: Kappa Statistic For Clustered Physician-Patients Polytomous Data, Zhao Yang Jan 2014

Sas Macro: Kappa Statistic For Clustered Physician-Patients Polytomous Data, Zhao Yang

Zhao (Tony) Yang, Ph.D.

This SAS macro calculate the kappa statistic and its semi-parametric variance estimator for the clustered physician-patients polytomous data. The proposed method depends on the assumption of conditional independence for the clustered physician-patients data structure.


Compound Interest And The Power Of Saving, Richard H. Serlin Jan 2014

Compound Interest And The Power Of Saving, Richard H. Serlin

Richard H. Serlin

This is an article with an included assignment that I give to my personal finance 1 students. The first part talks about the power of compound interest. I go into depth about the intuition why it's so powerful, why it takes off, and has been called the eighth wonder of the world. I've haven't seen anywhere else an extensive explanation of the intuition like I have here.

In the second part I give the students a nice assignment to see how much their savings can grow if they invest even a modest amount consistently, month in and month out, in …


Combining Biomarkers Linearly And Nonlinearly For Classification Using The Area Under The Roc Curve, Youyi Fong, Shuxin Yin, Ying Huang Jan 2014

Combining Biomarkers Linearly And Nonlinearly For Classification Using The Area Under The Roc Curve, Youyi Fong, Shuxin Yin, Ying Huang

Youyi Fong

In biomedical studies, it is often of interest to classify/predict a subject's disease status based on some biomarker measurements. Two approaches have received a lot of attention in the biostatistical literature for finding optimal biomarker combinations using a training data. The likelihood approach maximizes logistic regression model likelihood, while the AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) approach maximizes the empirical AUC based on biomarker combination. The two approaches are complementary to each other in practice. Existing methods in the AUC approach either approximate the empirical AUC by a smooth function or replace it with a convex upper bound. …


Causal Models And Learning From Data: Integrating Causal Modeling And Statistical Estimation, Maya Petersen, M J. Van Der Laan Jan 2014

Causal Models And Learning From Data: Integrating Causal Modeling And Statistical Estimation, Maya Petersen, M J. Van Der Laan

Maya Petersen

No abstract provided.


Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation For Dynamic And Static Longitudinal Marginal Structural Working Models, Maya Petersen, J Schwab, S Gruber, N Blaser, M Schomaker, M J. Van Der Laan Jan 2014

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation For Dynamic And Static Longitudinal Marginal Structural Working Models, Maya Petersen, J Schwab, S Gruber, N Blaser, M Schomaker, M J. Van Der Laan

Maya Petersen

No abstract provided.