To treat with social phenomena, statistical and mathematical physics provides a powerful and rigorous method [1], and several papers have studied the models of social phenomena based on stochastic processes. Many researchers in econometrics or biometrics have proposed that the discrete choice including binary analysis may be formulated as the AR (autoregressive), logit, and probit models [2]. I...

Quality of Nursing Work Life (QNWL) serves as a predictor of a nurse's intent to leave and hospital nurse turnover. However, QNWL measurement tools that have been validated for use in China are lacking. The present study evaluated the construct validity of the QNWL scale in China. A cross-sectional study was conducted conveniently from June 2012 to January 2013 at five hospitals in Guangzhou, w...

Segmented line regression has been used in many applications, and the problem of estimating the number of change-points in segmented line regression has been discussed in Kim et al. (2000). This paper studies asymptotic properties of the number of change-points selected by the permutation procedure of Kim et al. (2000). This procedure is based on a sequential application of likelihood ratio typ...

Choosing a model with too few parameters can involve making unrealistically simple assumptions and lead to high bias, poor prediction, and missed opportunities for insight. Such models are not flexible enough to describe the sample or the population well. A model with too many parameters can fit the observed data very well, but be too closely tailored to it. Such models may generalize poorly. P...

Model Based Preventive Maintenance relies on creating models that can either predict future operating states or upcoming failures directly. Since no modeling algorithm can guarantee a best solution in every situation, it becomes necessary to evaluate the solutions generated by these techniques. This paper reviews some popular criteria traditionally employed in model evaluation. Several evaluati...

This paper investigates one eigenvalue decomposition-based source number estimation method, and three information-based source number estimation methods, namely the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), Minimum Description Length (MDL) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), and improves BIC as Improved BIC (IBIC) to make it more efficient and easier for calculation. The performances of the abo...

Correct selection of prognostic biomarkers among multiple candidates is becoming increasingly challenging as the dimensionality of biological data becomes higher. Therefore, minimizing the false discovery rate (FDR) is of primary importance, while a low false negative rate (FNR) is a complementary measure. The lasso is a popular selection method in Cox regression, but its results depend heavily...

Although there are disadvantages associated with model building procedures such as backward, forward and stepwise procedures (e.g. multiple testing, arbitrary significance level used in dropping or acquiring variables), many analysts use these procedures and are not aware that alternative modeling selection methods exist. This paper focuses on model selection using the Akaike Information Criter...

The main objective of this study was to compare the goodness of fit of five non-linear growth models, i.e. Brody, Gompertz, Logistic, Richards and von Bertalanffy in different animals. It also aimed to evaluate the influence of the shape parameter on the growth curve. To accomplish this task, published growth data of 14 different groups of animals were used and four goodness of fit statistics w...