One impediment to the statistical analysis of network data has been the difficulty in modeling the dependence among the observations. In the very simple case of binary (0-1) network data, some researchers have parameterized network dependence in terms of exponential family representations. Accurate parameter estimation for such models is quite difficult, and the most commonly used models often ...

The nonparametric regression originated in mathematical statistics offers an original approach to signal processing problems (e.g., [1], [2]). It basically results in linear Þltering with the linear Þlters designed using some moving window local approximations. In many applications like speech recognition or image denoising, nonlinear or locally adaptive methods have been shown to be more effic...

Hei Yi Zhuang is an isolated subgroup of the Zhuang minority in China. Little is known about the effects of the genetic variants on serum lipid profiles in this population. The present study was undertaken to estimate the effects of the apolipoprotein (apo) A-I gene polymorphism adjacent to the initiate transcription site (-75 bp G/A) on the serum lipid levels in the Hei Yi Zhuang and Han popul...

To determine migration-related differences in serum lipid levels and to estimate the contribution of environmental factors to these differences, the authors conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,222 residents of southwestern China in 1988 and 1989: 521 Yi farmers living in a remote rural area, 340 Yi migrants to an urban setting, and 361 Han people living in the same urban setting. Serum to...

A new species, Protaphorura genheensis sp. nov., and two new records, Protaphorura taimyrica (Martynova, 1976) and Protaphorura kaszabi (Dunger, 1978) are reported from northeast China. New localities for P. bicampata are presented. P. genheensis sp. nov. belongs to the 'oligopseudocellar' group as having fewer pso on Th. II-III and can be distinguished by the dorsal pso formula, number of pso ...

Toplumlar?n kimlik ve aidiyet bilinci kazanmas?nda önemli i?levler üstlenen kaynaklardan biri de destanlard?r. Kahramanl?k ça??n?n de?erlerini temsil eden ola?anüstü bahad?rlar?n dü?manlar?yla giri?ti?i mücadeleleri esas alan destanlar, esasen milletlerin sözlü tarihlerini, kültürel yap?lar?n? yans?tmas? bak?m?ndan son derece önemlidir. Türk destanc?l?k gelene?inin ba?at anlat?lar?ndan Manas de...

which becomes a one parameter exponential family in θi if the scale parameter φ is known. This is simpler than McCullagh and Nelder’s version: they use a(φ) or even ai(φ) in place of φ. The ai(φ) version is useful for data whose precision varies in a known way, as for example when Yi is an average of ni iid random variables. There are two simple examples to keep in mind. Linear regression has Y...