Abstract. National statistical offices are often required to provide statistical information about characteristics of the population, such as mean income or unemployment rate, at several administrative or small area levels. Having good area level estimates is important because policies will often be based on this type of information. In this paper we describe how Bayesian hierarchical models ca...

1 Mixture Model and Bayesian Model Interpretations Combining Equations 2.1 and 2.2 (Main Text), we can consider the empirical-Bayes hierarchical model as a mixed model with both fixed and random effects in the frequentist setting as given by: logit(pmi) = αm + ZmγXmi +Xmiτ tmm, where ZmγXmi would be considered a fixed effect and Xmiτ tmm a random effect. Alternatively, this model may be viewed ...

Correlated data are fairly common in health and social sciences. For example, clustered data arise when subjects are nested in clusters such as classrooms, hospitals, and neighborhoods; while longitudinal data result from multiple measures for the same subject over long period of time; whereas repeated measures data are involved in multiple measurements for the same subject over time or other d...

network effects, increase in the value of consuming a product if many other consumers use the same product, is a feature of many markets of high-technology products. frequently cited examples of products exhibiting network effects are telecommunication or software products. this research explores the role of network effects in the consumer´s choice of mobile operator in tehran. for our empirica...

This paper investigates the impact of the introduction of new restrictive permanent contracts on the perceived job security of the workers in Spain. The perceived job security is strongly influenced by the characteristics of individuals and their distribution within groups. Comparing heterogeneous groups could make the traditional DID estimator biased. To address this issue I combine the propen...

Content-aware image retargeting has drawn much attention in image and vision research in recent years. However, existing methods are very difficult to ensure that the result images from retargeting achieve good visual effect on the whole, since these methods mainly focus on spatial image information. In this paper, we propose a new approach on content-aware image retargeting based on visual eff...

This study explores the relationship between using social networks sites (SNS), marriage satisfaction and divorce rates using survey data of married individuals and state-level data from the United States. Results show that using SNS is negatively correlated with marriage quality and happiness, and positively correlated with experiencing a troubled relationship and thinking about divorce. These...

Purpose: of the current research is to develop a reliability assessment method with an extension of the existing ones and pooling them to a common framework. The system must identify the most unreliable parts of a production process and suggest the most efficient ways for the reliability improvement. Design/methodology/approach: FMEA is in the centre of the proposed framework,a reliability anal...