This paper studies the construction of a Bayesian confidence interval for the risk ratio (RR) in a 2 × 2 table with structural zero. Under a Dirichlet prior distribution, the exact posterior distribution of the RR is derived, and tail-based interval is suggested for constructing Bayesian...

The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is one of the most popular criteria for model selection in finite mixture models. However, it implausibly penalizes the complexity of each component using the whole sample size and completely ignores the clustered structure inherent in the data, resulting...

In the application of the popular maximum likelihood method to factor analysis, the number of factors is commonly determined through a two-stage procedure, in which stage 1 performs parameter estimation for a set of candidate models and then stage 2 chooses the best according to certain model...

The purpose of this study is to identify attitude differences between smokers and non‐smokers regarding smoking in restaurants and existing smoking by‐laws. The findings can assist restaurant managers to resolve the dilemma of in‐restaurant smoking. Qualitative research methods were used...

This dissertation is based on fifteen months of field research in Shanghai and Beijing conducted in 2002 and 2004. The central question with which this dissertation is concerned is how clothing and the clothing industry is constituted by and constitutive of the phenomenal changes that have taken...

This dissertation is based on fifteen months of field research in Shanghai and Beijing conducted in 2002 and 2004. The central question with which this dissertation is concerned is how clothing and the clothing industry is constituted by and constitutive of the phenomenal changes that have taken...

Fungi and algae are specific microbial groups associated with the deterioration and safety of stone monuments. In this study, the high-throughput sequencing analysis was used to investigate the diversity, distributions, ecological functions, and interaction patterns of both fungal and algal...