China's massive transformation in urban governance, which is characterized by breaking the link between workplace and residence and consolidating state territorial agencies at the grassroots level, has profound implications for urban residents. While community building is employed as a...

Employing a variation of the Small World technique for tracing social relations in the context of a larger social structure, the instrumental uses of social relations are examined in terms of the prestige and types of relations characteristic of participants m the search process. The results...

Functional linear regression has been widely used to model the relationship between a scalar response and functional predictors. If the original data do not satisfy the linear assumption, an intuitive solution is to perform some transformation such that transformed data will be linearly related....

A stochastic search variable selection approach is proposed for Bayesian model selection in binary and tobit quantile regression. A simple and efficient Gibbs sampling algorithm was developed for posterior inference using a location-scale mixture representation of the asymmetric Laplace...