Lewis White Beck (1913–1997)

Stochastic Variation: A Comment on Lewis-Beck and Skalaban's "The R-Squared"

In an interesting and provocative article, Michael Lewis-Beck and Andrew Skalaban make an important contribution by emphasizing several philosophical issues in political methodology that have received too little attention from methodologists and quantitative researchers. These issues involve the role of systematic, and especially stochastic, variation in statistical models. After briefly discus...

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We discuss and give elementary proofs of results of Brion and of LawrenceVarchenko on the lattice-point enumerator generating functions for polytopes and cones. While this note is purely expository, its contains a new proof of Brion’s Theorem using irrational decompositions.

Beck JD, Offenbacher S

Materials and Methods: 1391 individuals (age 45-64 years old) randomly selected from Dental Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (Dental ARIC). Clinical measures collected included PD, CAL on six sites for all teeth. Case definition of periodontal disease consists of following three degrees; 1) severe periodontitis: >2 interproximal sites ( not on same tooth) with > 6mm CAL and 1 or more i...

Beck Cognitive Schema Depression

Running head: BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE

There is considerable debate about the underlying factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) in the literature. An established view is that it reflects a unitary or bi-dimensional construct in non-clinical samples. There are, however, reasons to reconsider this conceptualisation. Based on previous factor analytic findings from both clinical and nonclinical studies, the aim of the pre...