This paper explores the phenomenon of Hong Kong citizens residing in mainland China. This situation is interesting as it involves two distinct institutional structures, rather than the one involved in conventional res...
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This paper explores the phenomenon of Hong Kong citizens residing in mainland China. This situation is interesting as it involves two distinct institutional structures, rather than the one involved in conventional residential mobility. In addition, this is a different scenario, in which people move from a developed area to a comparatively developing area. This paper aims to determine how different attributes weigh in potential decisions about cross-border residence and the characteristics of these residents, from the ex ante perspective. A logistic regression model is used to gauge the effect of various factors on the stated preferences of cross-border residence. The findings suggest that the older generation has a higher preference for future cross-border residence than other demographic groups. This is in sharp contrast with conventional theories on residential mobility. This finding has implications with regard to government policies in areas such as social security, healthcare and housing provision. In addition, institutional factors play a critical role in restraining the intentions of several population groups. For instance, local public rental housing limits the desire for cross-border residence among its tenants, while the distinctive institutional arrangements between Hong Kong and mainland China, due to the "One country, two systems" policy, keep the younger, more educated class from potentially relocating to Mainland China.
Land use change and its driving factors are hot topics of global change research, and also important topics of sustainable development. This paper selected a small area in alluvial plain oasis in Xinjiang Autonomous r...
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Land use change and its driving factors are hot topics of global change research, and also important topics of sustainable development. This paper selected a small area in alluvial plain oasis in Xinjiang Autonomous region of China as the study area. Using Landsat TM data of 1987, 1998 and 2004, the dynamic process of the spatial-temporal characteristics of land use changes were analyzed to improve understanding and to find the driving forces of land use changes so that sustainable land utilization could be practiced. During the 17 years salt-alkali tolerant cropland, cereal cropland, vegetable-fruit land, and shrubbery, had decreased remarkably by 78.59%, 85.95%, 92.13%, 68.43%, respectively. Cotton-liquorice land, grape-hop land, planted forest, residential area in town, residential area in village, and saline-alkaline field had increased dramatically. The increased percentage received the value of 2432.11%, 10103.18%, 889.91%, 222.45%, 96.00%, 44.18%, respectively. By the logisticregression, the main driving factors were derived for each land use type. The advance of technology (fertilizer input, irrigation quota, and animal labor et al.) and market (unit are yield net) were the main driving factors. Policy, in a higher level, influenced the land use dynamics for all the land use changes.
in face verification problems the number of training samples from each class is usually reduced, making difficult the estimation of the classifier parameters. In this paper we propose a new method for face verificatio...
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in face verification problems the number of training samples from each class is usually reduced, making difficult the estimation of the classifier parameters. In this paper we propose a new method for face verification where we simultaneously train different face verification tasks, sharing the model parameter space. We use a multi-task extended logisticregression classifier to perform the classification. Our approach allows to share information from different classification tasks (transfer knowledge), mitigating the effects of the reduced sample size problem. Our experiments performed using the publicly available AR Face Database, show lower error rates when multiple tasks are jointly trained sharing information, which confirms the theoretical approximations in the related literature.
Background: There is growing evidence that gene-gene interactions are ubiquitous in determining the susceptibility to common human diseases. The investigation of such gene-gene interactions presents new statistical ch...
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Background: There is growing evidence that gene-gene interactions are ubiquitous in determining the susceptibility to common human diseases. The investigation of such gene-gene interactions presents new statistical challenges for studies with relatively small sample sizes as the number of potential interactions in the genome can be large. Breast cancer provides a useful paradigm to study genetically complex diseases because commonly occurring single nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNPs) may additively or synergistically disturb the system-wide communication of the cellular processes leading to cancer development. Methods: In this study, we systematically studied SNP-SNP interactions among 19 SNPs from 18 key genes involved in major cancer pathways in a sample of 398 breast cancer cases and 372 controls from Ontario. We discuss the methodological issues associated with the detection of SNP-SNP interactions in this dataset by applying and comparing three commonly used methods: the logistic regression model, classification and regression trees ( CART), and the multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) method. Results: Our analyses show evidence for several simple (two-way) and complex (multi-way) SNP-SNP interactions associated with breast cancer. For example, all three methods identified XPD-[Lys751Gln]* IL10-[G(-1082) A] as the most significant two-way interaction. CART and MDR identified the same critical SNPs participating in complex interactions. Our results suggest that the use of multiple statistical approaches ( or an integrated approach) rather than a single methodology could be the best strategy to elucidate complex gene interactions that have generally very different patterns. Conclusion: The strategy used here has the potential to identify complex biological relationships among breast cancer genes and processes. This will lead to the discovery of novel biological information, which will improve breast cancer risk management.
In this paper, we consider inference based on very general divergence measures under assumptions of a logistic regression model. We use the minimum phi-divergence estimator in a phi-divergence statistic, which is the ...
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In this paper, we consider inference based on very general divergence measures under assumptions of a logistic regression model. We use the minimum phi-divergence estimator in a phi-divergence statistic, which is the basis of some new statistics, for solving the classical problems of testing in a logistic regression model. A diagnostic analysis is developed based on the new estimators and test statistics. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A general class of minimum distance estimators for logistic regression models based on the φ-divergence measures is introduced: The minimum φ-divergence estimator, which is seen to be a generalization of the maximum...
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A logistic regression model based on forest inventory plot data and transformations of Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery was used to predict the probability of forest for 15 study areas in Indiana, USA, and 15...
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A logistic regression model based on forest inventory plot data and transformations of Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery was used to predict the probability of forest for 15 study areas in Indiana, USA, and 15 in Minnesota, USA. Within each study area, model-based estimates of forest area were obtained for circular areas with radii of 5 km, 10 km, and 15 km and were compared to design-based estimates based on inventory plot data. Precision estimates for the circular areas were also obtained using variance formulae developed for this application that incorporated spatial correlation among model predictions for individual pixels. The model-based estimates were generally comparable to the design-based estimates. The advantages of the model-based approach are that maps and small areas estimates may be obtained and the necessity of releasing exact plot locations for user-specific applications is alleviated. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
This paper investigates how to estimate the likelihood of a customer accepting a loan offer as a function of the offer parameters and how to choose the optimal set of parameters for the offer to the applicant in real ...
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This paper investigates how to estimate the likelihood of a customer accepting a loan offer as a function of the offer parameters and how to choose the optimal set of parameters for the offer to the applicant in real time. There is no publicly available data set on whether customers accept the offer of a financial product, whose features are changing from offer to offer. Thus, we develop our own data set using a fantasy student current account. In this paper, we suggest three approaches to determine the probability that an applicant with characteristics will accept offer characteristics using the fantasy student current account data. Firstly, a logistic regression model is applied to obtain the acceptance probability. Secondly, linear programming is adapted to obtain the acceptance probability model in the case where there is a dominant offer characteristic, whose attractiveness increases (or decreases) monotonically as the characteristic's value increases. Finally, an accelerated life model is applied to obtain the probability of acceptance in the case where there is a dominant offer characteristic. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
We propose a semiparametric Wald statistic to test whether a diagnostic test is capable of discriminating between diseased and nondiseased subjects based on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve area under...
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We propose a semiparametric Wald statistic to test whether a diagnostic test is capable of discriminating between diseased and nondiseased subjects based on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve area under a two-sample semiparametric density ratio model. The proposed Wald test is constructed on the basis of the maximum semiparametric likelihood estimator of the ROC curve area. The proposed test statistic has an asymptotic chi-squared distribution under the null hypothesis and an asymptotic noncentral chi-squared distribution under local alternatives to the null hypothesis. We present some results on a simulation study and on the analysis of two data sets. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This study investigated the effectiveness of administrative lifetime driver's license revocation (ALLR) and its impact on offenders, based on a two-stage survey of 768 offenders. It was found that after ALLR had b...
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This study investigated the effectiveness of administrative lifetime driver's license revocation (ALLR) and its impact on offenders, based on a two-stage survey of 768 offenders. It was found that after ALLR had been imposed, 23.4% of these offenders were still driving almost the same as before, 59.8% drove significantly less frequently, and only 16.8% of the offenders gave up driving completely. The results of logistic regression models showed that offenders' compliance with ALLR was significantly correlated with their personal characteristics (age, income), penalty status (incarceration, duration of ALLR), and the need to drive for working, commuting and shopping. Elderly and low-income offenders were more likely to abide by the ALLR restriction. The application of the generalized estimating equations (GEE) model was used to identify the determinant factors affecting offenders' driving mileage, and to effectively estimate the driving mileage reduction as a result of the ALLR. It was found that ALLR is fairly effective in keeping offenders off the road, but that it may reduce their ability to make a living. resulting in the less fortunate becoming more helpless. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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