In this paper, we present a general statistical framework within which we can draw a new interpretation of the Laakso-Taagepera effective number of parties fragmentation index. With the particular method of sampling with probability proportional to the party sizes, we show that the...

Catastrophic wildfires in California have become more frequent in past decades, while insured losses per event have been rising substantially. On average, California ranks the highest among states in the U.S. in the number of fires as well as the number of acres burned each year. The study of...

A multiple-sample semiparametric density ratio model, which is equivalent to a generalized logistic regression model, can be constructedby multiplicative exponential distortions of a reference distribution. Distortion functions are assumed to be nonnegative and of a known finite-dimensional...