In analyzing correlated data or clustered data with linear or logistic mixed effects model, one commonly assumes that the random effects follow a normal distribution with mean zero. However, this assumption might not be appropriate in many cases. In particular, substantial violation of normality...

Under the sociological theory of homophily, people who are similar to one another are more likely to interact with one another. Marketers often have access to data on interactions among customers from which, with homophily as a guiding principle, inferences could be made about the underlying...

This article defines a quantized entropy and develops Bayes estimates and inference for the entropy and a Kullback-Leibler information index of the model fit. We use a Dirichlet process prior for the unknown data-generating distribution with a maximum entropy candidate model as the expected...