期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
The statistical analysis of networks is a popular research topic with ever widening applications. Exponential random graph models (ERGMs), which speci......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
It is shown that a general class of information criteria is able to rule out seriously over-fitting change-point models where the number of change poi......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Morphometric (i.e., shape and size) differences in the anatomy of cortical structures are associated with neuro-developmental and neuropsychiatric dis......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Excessive zeros in multivariate count data are often encountered in practice. Since the Poisson distribution only possesses the property of equi-dispe......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
The enrichment analysis of pre-defined gene sets is a widely used tool to extract functional information in association studies. However, traditional ......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Detecting gene-gene interaction is an important but challenging task in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). To this end, many statistical methods......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
As additive quantile regression (AQR) models possess the properties of robustness and flexibility, they become increasingly popular in many applicatio......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
This paper considers a power-transformed linear quantile regression model for censored competing risks data, based on conditional quantiles defined by......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Although there are many papers on variable selection methods in the modeling of the mean and/or variance parameters, little work has been done on how ......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Computation of the box dimension for high-dimensional surfaces is much more complicated than the one-dimensional case. To obtain a fast computation, w......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Osteoporosis is a common disease among postmenopausal women and older men. It is critical to accurately predict osteoporotic fracture risk so that hig......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
Ordinal data are often seen in real applications. Regular multicategory classification methods are not designed for this data type and a more proper t......
期刊: Statistics and Its Interface, 2017; 10 (2)
This paper proposes a new statistical learning method for word segmentation in Chinese language processing. Word segmentation is the crucial first ste......