This paper examined the health of children born to foreign-born and native-born mothers. Using a logistic methodology to analyze data from the 2008 Survey of Foreign and Mainland Chinese Spouses’ Living Demand and the 2005 National Health Survey of Children 12 Years old and under in Taiwan,...

Residual analysis (e.g. Hambleton & Swaminathan, Item response theory: principles and applications, Kluwer Academic, Boston, <CitationRef CitationID="CR20">1985</CitationRef>; Hambleton, Swaminathan, & Rogers, Fundamentals of item response theory, Sage, Newbury Park, <CitationRef CitationID="CR21">1991</CitationRef>) is a popular method to assess fit of item response theory (IRT)...</citationref></citationref>

Este trabajo replica y adapta el modelo de Jones y Hensher (2004) a los datos de una economía emergente con el propósito de evaluar su validez externa. Se compara el desempeño del modelo logístico estándar en relación con el modelo logístico mixto para predecir el riesgo de crisis en el...

In this paper, we studied the importance of indigenous biodiversity (native bush) on farm properties in the Waikato Region. To do this, we surveyed both real estate agents and farmers. We discovered that opinions of native bush between the two groups were very different. A small percentage of...

The study tries to construct the diffusion models of crisis information in micro blog. We propose three information release patterns in micro blog according to the duration of crisis information released, namely concentrated release, continuous release, and pulse release. Based on Logistic...

Quasi-stationary distributions have been used in biology to describe the steady state behaviour of Markovian population models which, while eventually certain to become extinct, nevertheless maintain an apparent stochastic equilibrium for long periods. However, they have substantial drawbacks; a...