It is well known that inference in vector autoregressive models depends crucially on the choice of lag-length. Various lag-length selection procedures have been suggested and evaluated in the literature. In these evaluations the possibility that the true model may have unequal lag-length has,...

This communication is a response to the insightful note by Fellows on previous papers by the author. Not only has Fellows supplemented Chau's major arguments, he has also expanded the scope of discussion and raised new issues. While the author agrees with most of the points made by Fellows,...

We simulate the kinetic Ashkin-Teller model with both ordered and disordered initial states, evolving in contact with a heat-bath at the critical temperature. The power-law scaling behaviour for the magnetic order and electric order are observed in the early time stage. The values of the...

The effective forces between two spherical highly charged colloidal macroions are calculated within the primitive model of strongly asymmetric electrolytes using Monte Carlo simulations. For typical parameters corresponding to aqueous suspensions of polystyrene spheres, the forces are found to...

Motivated by recent experimental activities on surface critical phenomena, we present a detailed theoretical study of the near-surface behavior of the local order parameter m(z) in Ising-like spin systems. Special attention is paid to the crossover regime between “ordinary” and “normal”...

The scaling behavior of fluctuations in cluster size is studied in q=5 and 7 state Potts models. This quantity exhibits scaling behavior on small lattices where the scaling of local operators like energy fluctuations and Binder cumulant cannot be expected.