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A new poisson-exponential-gamma distribution for modelling count data with applications
In this paper, a new member of the Poisson family of distributions called the Poisson-Exponential-Gamma (PEG) distribution for modelling count data...
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Burstiness of human physical activities and their characterisation
Human behaviour is heterogeneous and temporally fluctuates. Many studies have focused on inter-event time (IET) fluctuations and have reported that...
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Efficient and alternative approaches for imputing missing data to estimate population mean
Missing data is a routine occurrence in surveys for collecting data. The manuscript presents two novel classes of imputation techniques based on the...
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Age-period-cohort analysis of U.S. fertility: a realistic approach
A key question for the explanation of fertility trends in advanced societies is whether, in addition to age, period- rather than cohort-related...
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Modelling Nigerian Female Mortality: An Application of Four Stochastic Mortality Models
Nigeria, with an estimated population of over 200 million people is depicted as the most populous black Nation in the World with the female gender...
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Policy and Fertility, a Case Study of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan
In 2006, the Quebec government implemented a parental leave program more generous than the scheme available through the Canadian federal Employment...
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The derivative-based approach to nonlinear mediation models: insights and applications
Traditional mediation analysis has been developed in the context of linear models, enabling the estimation of indirect effects through the product of...
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Transit Ridership Modeling at the Bus Stop Level: Comparison of Approaches Focusing on Count and Spatially Dependent Data
Boarding and alighting modeling at the bus stop level is an important tool for operational planning of public transport systems, in addition to...
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Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers
The AIM of this study is to examine and evaluate differences in expenditure and length of stay between tourists who use low-cost carriers and those...
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Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach
We propose an application of spatial statistics to model the location patterns of new firms in the city of São Paulo. In this paper, we assume that...
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Counting the Dead: COVID-19 and Mortality in Quebec and British Columbia During the First Wave
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to excess mortality across the globe, and Canada has been no exception. Nonetheless, the...
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Complex climate and network effects on internal migration in South Africa revealed by a network model
Climate variability and climate change influence human migration both directly and indirectly through a variety of channels that are controlled by...
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A quasi-negative binomial regression with an application to medical care data
This paper introduced a Quasi-Negative Binomial Regression as an extension of Quasi-Negative Binomial to handle response count datasets modulated...
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Fast meta-analytic approximations for relational event models: applications to data streams and multilevel data
Large relational-event history data stemming from large networks are becoming increasingly available due to recent technological developments (e.g....
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The Spatio-temporal Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Assess Neighborhood Influences
Bayesian spatio-temporal models are an emerging research approach to the study of the ecological variations of child maltreatment at the neighborhood...
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Backtesting stochastic mortality models by prediction interval-based metrics
Human lifespan increments represent one of the main current risks for governments and pension and health benefits providers. Longevity societies...
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A quantitative analysis on the effect of COVID-19 in a private health insurance plan expenditure
This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 on health care expenditure using data from a private Health Insurance Plan (HIP). As well known, at the...
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Migration at the City Level
With the declining natural growth rate in recent years, the migration at the city level in China has become the main driving force for the changes of...
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Models of Interaction*
Is an egalitarian distribution stable? If not, what are the mechanisms of interaction behind increasing inequality? The overview presented in the...