For modern evidence-based medicine, decisions on disease prevention or management strategies are often guided by a risk index system. For each individual, the system uses his/her baseline information to estimate the risk of experiencing a future disease-related clinical event. Such a risk...

In this paper, we study a rank-based model for weighted network. The evolution rule of the network is based on the ranking of node strength, which couples the topological growth and the weight dynamics. Analytically and by simulations, we demonstrate that the generated networks recover the...

When the estimating function for a vector of parameters is not smooth, it is often rather difficult, if not impossible, to obtain a consistent estimator by solving the corresponding estimating equation using standard numerical techniques. In this paper, we propose a simple inference procedure...