In the context of panel ordered-response structures, the current paper compares the performance of the maximum-simulated likelihood (MSL) inference approach and the composite marginal likelihood (CML) inference approach. The panel structures considered include the pure random coefficients (RC)...

Vacation travel in the USA, which constitutes about 25% of all long-distance travel, has been increasing consistently over the past two decades and warrants careful attention in the context of regional and statewide transportation air quality planning and policy analysis, as well as tourism...

The current paper focuses on analyzing and modeling the physical activity participation levels (in terms of the number of daily "bouts" or "episodes" of physical activity during a weekend day) of all members of a family jointly. Essentially, we consider a family as a "cluster" of individuals...