Much of the world’s gene pool is located in tropical rainforests, which are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Proper management of protected forests is crucial to avoid further loss of biodiversity. Resource extraction by local communities can be a major obstacle in the management of protected forests. This paper develops a two sector dynamic model for agriculture and forest resource extract...

This paper examines the factors affecting the participation of farm households in farm land rental markets with particular focus on the impact of the land reform. The operational outcomes of such market participation are also analysed. The study used a panel dataset of farm households surveyed before and after the land reform with Random Effect Tobit model. The analysis showed that the land ref...

Variance-component (VC) methods are flexible and powerful procedures for the mapping of genes that influence quantitative traits. However, traditional VC methods make the critical assumption that the quantitative-trait data within a family either follow or can be transformed to follow a multivariate normal distribution. Violation of the multivariate normality assumption can occur if trait data ...

Tobit Quantile Regression with Adaptive Lasso Penalty is a quantile regression model on censored data that adds Lasso's adaptive penalty to its parameter estimation. The estimation of the parameters solved by Bayesian analysis. Parameters are assumed follow certain distribution called prior distribution. Using sample information along distribution, conditional posterior searched using Box-Tiao ...

Based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2011-2019, entropy value method and Tobit regression model are applied to study impact logistics industry agglomeration green economic development. The results show that development shows a significant promotion effect; foreign direct investment, urbanization level population density have positive development; human capital government expendi...

OBJECTIVES Chinese county hospitals have been excessively enlarging their scale during the healthcare reform since 2009. The purpose of this paper is to examine the technical efficiency and productivity of county hospitals during the reform process, and to determine whether, and how, efficiency is affected by various factors. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 114 sample county hospitals were selected ...

Ground water nitrate concentrations on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, were analyzed to assess the effects of land use on ground water quality. Exploratory data analysis was applied to historic ground water nitrate concentrations to determine spatial and temporal trends. Maximum likelihood Tobit and logistic regression analyses of explanatory variables that characterize land use within a 1000-...