This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

Missing data is a prevalent problem in data analysis. In the present dissertation I investigated the performance of multiple imputation (MI) techniques using a real data set as well as through a Monte Carlo study in the context of a Cox regression model. For the Monte Carlo study, I compare the...

We examine how socioeconomic status of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents affects their likelihood of dating across racial lines and the racial characteristics of their romantic partners. Copyright (c) 2007 Southwestern Social Science Association.

This paper mainly studies a class of generalized sum-of-linear-fractions programming problems which have important applications in finance, economy and computational vision. In this process, we first propose a new method to re-represent the original problem as an equivalent problem (EP) with...

We develop a new tool for studying evolutionary games on complex networks - dynamical approximate master equations (DAMEs).We use DAMEs to predict evolutionary outcomes of two-player repeated games on networks and to study the behavior of nodes and edges during evolution.DAMEs reveal the...