Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to distinguish different types of guanxi from a historic perspective and to investigate the effects of different types of guanxi on trust between alliance partners through an empirical study. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first reviews the...

This paper considers joint analysis of current status and marker data using a threshold model based on first hitting times. A failure time is defined as the time at which a subject's latent health status process first decreases to zero. We extend the bivariate Wiener process model in Whitmore et...

Variable selection is an important issue in all regression analyses, and in this paper we discuss this in the context of regression analysis of panel count data. Panel count data often occur in long-term studies that concern occurrence rate of a recurrent event, and their analysis has recently...

In this short note the first open problem in Zhang [Zhang, Z.M., 2007. A note on extreme magnitudes of characteristic functions. Statist. Probab. Lett. 77, 1641-1643] is completely solved.

This paper explores a fast algorithm to select relevant predictors for the response process with panel count data. Based on the lasso penalized pseudo-objective function derived from an estimating equation, the coordinate ascent accelerates the estimation of regression coefficients. The...

Previous studies reported mixed findings on the relationship between acculturation and health status among Asian Americans due to different types of acculturation measures used or different Asian subgroups involved in various studies. We aim to fill the gap by applying multiple measures of...

This paper identifies a critical issue in the Weighted Repeated Sales (WRS) method - the omission of market risk in the weight estimation model specified by Case and Shiller (1989). It demonstrates that the omission of market risk is conceptually unjustified. Through extensive examination of the...