This paper presents a new method for quantifying vulnerability to natural hazards in China. As an important area of vulnerability research, quantitative assessment of vulnerability has raised much focus in academia. Presently, scholars have proposed a variety of methods for quantitative...

The problem of reconstructing the source-sink dynamics arises in many biological systems. Our research is motivated by marine applications where newborns are passively dispersed by ocean currents from several potential spawning sources to settle in various nursery regions that collectively...

Nonlinear state-space models driven by differential equations have been widely used in science. Their statistical inference generally requires computing the mean and covariance matrix of some nonlinear function of the state variables, which can be done in several ways. For example, such...

We consider the parameter restrictions that need to be imposed to ensure that the conditional variance process of a GARCH(<italic>p</italic>,<italic>q</italic>) model remains nonnegative. Previously, Nelson and Cao (1992, <italic>Journal of Business ’ Economic Statistics</italic> 10, 229–235) provided a set of necessary and sufficient...

We derive some readily verifiable necessary and sufficient conditions for a multivariate non-Gaussian linear process to be time-reversible, under two sets of conditions on the contemporaneous dependence structure of the innovations. One set of conditions concerns the case of...

We study the large-sample properties of the penalized maximum likelihood estimator of a multivariate stochastic regression model with contemporaneously correlated data. The penalty is in terms of the square norm of some (vector) linear function of the regression coefficients. The model subsumes...

There is hardly any literature on modelling nonlinear dynamic relations involving nonnormal time series data. This is a serious lacuna because nonnormal data are far more abundant than normal ones, for example, time series of counts and positive time series. While there are various forms of...

The problem of estimating a nonlinear state-space model whose state process is driven by an ordinary differential equation (ODE) or a stochastic differential equation (SDE), with discrete-time data is studied. A new estimation method is proposed based on minimizing the conditional least squares...

We propose an adaptive nuclear norm penalization approach for low-rank matrix approximation, and use it to develop a new reduced rank estimation method for high-dimensional multivariate regression. The adaptive nuclear norm is defined as the weighted sum of the singular values of the matrix, and...