with the Portraits of American Life Study, a national survey of 2,610 American adults aged 18-80+. Results of multivariate logistic and ordered logistic regression models reveal that young adults are most likely to have recently offered advice to family members, friends, or strangers. Interestingly, however, the connection between advice-giving and the sense of life meaningfulness is most prono...

Zero{suppressed binary decision diagrams (ZBDDs) have been introduced by Minato ((14] { 17]) who presents applications for cube set representations, fault simulation , timing analysis and the n{queens{problem. Here the structural properties of ZBDDs are worked out and a generic synthesis algorithm is presented and analyzed. It is proved that ZBDDs can be at most by a factor n + 1 smaller or lar...

This study examines the Behavior Based Safety (BBS) program of an oil production platform located off the coast of West Africa. The program has been in place at this 200-employee location since January 2002. All observation reports for 2003 were made available to explore relationships between behaviors recorded and incidence rates. A sample of 382 observation reports was selected from the 64,64...

Recent political science research has seen a surge in interest in estimating latent variables (including ideal points of legislators and judges, political sophistication, and democratization) using item-response theory modeling and other factor-analytic techniques. These models offer several advantages over summated scales and other techniques, but one of these advantages—having an estimate of ...

In this study, we examined determinant factors associated with the residential consumption and perception of savings of electricity and city gas; this was based on data collected from a large-scale questionnaire sent to households in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in two different years: 2009 and 2013. We applied an ordered logit model to determine the overall trend of the determinant factors,...

Purpose – This study examines whether the type of ultimate controllers (i.e., private vs. state) affects corporate disclosure quality and whether the relationship between the type of ultimate controllers and corporate disclosure quality is moderated by the separation of ownership and control. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs the data of 405 Chinese listed firms in 2005. We revie...

Specify that CI stands for confidence interval. Response: We have specified this in the abstract Methods Pag.7, Section on socio-economic status. Specify that information on income is missing for more than 300 subjects. Response: we have indicated in the text that the response rate for the income variable was lower compared to the rest of variables. Pag.7, Statistical analysis. It should be cle...

A linear regression model of particle pollution and an ordered logistic regression model of the relevant index were selected for observations in the US city of Los Angeles, California. Models were used to forecast Air Quality Index (AQI) from a sample, and were compared and contrasted. Methods are comparable overall but markedly different in their powers to predict certain categories. Linear re...

We propose a consistent method for estimating both the finite and infinite dimensional parameters of the proportional odds model when a covariate is subject to measurement error and time-to-events are subject to right censoring. The proposed method does not rely on the distributional assumption of the true covariate which is not observed in the data. In addition, the proposed estimator does not...

Louviere et al. (2008, J. of Choice Modelling, 1, 126-163) present two main empirical examples in which a respondent rank orders the options in various choice sets by repeated best, then worst, choice. They expand the ranking data to various “implied” choices in subsets and fit the expanded data in various ways; they do not present models of the original rank data, except in one case (that of t...