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Estimate and Interpret Results from Ordered Regression Models
Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non-Parallel
Alternatives presents regression models for ordinal outcomes, which
are variables that have ordered categories but unknown spacing
between the categories. The book provides comprehensive coverage of
the three major classes of ordered regression models (cumulative,
stage, and adjacent) as well as variations based on the application
of the parallel regression assumption. The authors first introduce
the three "parallel" ordered regression models before covering
unconstrained partial, constrained partial, and nonparallel models.
They then review existing tests for the parallel regression
assumption, propose new variations of several tests, and discuss
important practical concerns related to tests of the parallel
regression assumption. The book also describes extensions of
ordered regression models, including heterogeneous choice models,
multilevel ordered models, and the Bayesian approach to ordered
regression models. Some chapters include brief examples using Stata
and R. This book offers a conceptual framework for understanding
ordered regression models based on the probability of interest and
the application of the parallel regression assumption. It
demonstrates the usefulness of numerous modeling alternatives,
showing you how to select the most appropriate model given the type
of ordinal outcome and restrictiveness of the parallel assumption
for each variable. Web ResourceMore detailed examples are available
on a supplementary website. The site also contains JAGS, R, and
Stata codes to estimate the models along with syntax to reproduce
the results.
Modern Applied Regressions creates an intricate and colorful mural
with mosaics of categorical and limited response variable (CLRV)
models using both Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. Written for
graduate students, junior researchers, and quantitative analysts in
behavioral, health, and social sciences, this text provides details
for doing Bayesian and frequentist data analysis of CLRV models.
Each chapter can be read and studied separately with R coding
snippets and template interpretation for easy replication. Along
with the doing part, the text provides basic and accessible
statistical theories behind these models and uses a narrative style
to recount their origins and evolution. This book first scaffolds
both Bayesian and frequentist paradigms for regression analysis,
and then moves onto different types of categorical and limited
response variable models, including binary, ordered, multinomial,
count, and survival regression. Each of the middle four chapters
discusses a major type of CLRV regression that subsumes an array of
important variants and extensions. The discussion of all major
types usually begins with the history and evolution of the
prototypical model, followed by the formulation of basic
statistical properties and an elaboration on the doing part of the
model and its extension. The doing part typically includes R codes,
results, and their interpretation. The last chapter discusses
advanced modeling and predictive techniques-multilevel modeling,
causal inference and propensity score analysis, and machine
learning-that are largely built with the toolkits designed for the
CLRV models previously covered. The online resources for this book,
including R and Stan codes and supplementary notes, can be accessed
at
https://sites.google.com/site/socjunxu/home/statistics/modern-applied-regressions.
In 2014, Xu Tiantian, founder of Beijing-based studio Design and
Architecture (DnA) began to work in Songyang County, in China's
Zhejiang Province. Her exemplary holistic planning concept of
Architectural Acupuncture, which has gained the support of local
administrative and political leadership, aims at revitalising rural
areas and comprises the renovation of production plants and of
tourist and technical infrastructure as well as the creation of
venues for culture and education and of social housing. Each of
Xu's small-scale interventions at local level is unique, only the
small budget is common to all of them. Moreover, they are all
inter-related with each other and in their entirety serve the
broader goal of mutual enhancement. This book introduces Xu's
concept of Architectural Acupuncture and discusses the influence of
architecture on cultural self-understanding and economic renewal in
21st-century rural China. It features some 20 new buildings and
conversions of existing structures with diverse functions.
Published alongside are essays by international economists,
sociologists, and curators as well as by the secretary of the
Songyang County Party Committee, examining the social, political,
and economic implications of sustainable planning and collective
action in the Chinese province.
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of major channel codes
adopted since the 3rd generation of mobile communication.
Modulation schemes suitable for 5G mobile communications are also
described based on key New Radio application scenarios and
performance requirements. It covers low density parity check (LDPC)
codes, Polar codes, tail-biting convolutional codes (TBCC) and
Turbo codes. Outer codes and a few advanced coding and modulations
are also discussed. In addition, it includes detailed illustration
of each channel coding scheme such as the basic code structure,
decoding algorithms, performance evaluation and complexity
analysis. The book offers insights on why and how channel codes are
designed and developed in standardization organizations, which
significantly facilitates the reading and understanding of the of
5G channel coding technologies. Channel Coding in 5G New Radio will
be an essential read for researchers and students of digital
communications, wireless communications engineers, and those who
are interested in mobile communications in general.
Network Algorithmics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing
Fast Networked Devices, Second Edition takes an interdisciplinary
approach to applying principles for efficient implementation of
network devices, offering solutions to the problem of network
implementation bottlenecks. In designing a network device, there
are dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will
perform - sometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. The book
provides a complete and coherent methodology for maximizing speed
while meeting network design goals. The book is uniquely focused on
the seamless integration of data structures, algorithms, operating
systems and hardware/software co-designs for high-performance
routers/switches and network end systems. Thoroughly updated based
on courses taught by the authors over the past decade, the book
lays out the bottlenecks most often encountered at four disparate
levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware and architecture.
It then develops fifteen principles key to breaking these
bottlenecks, systematically applying them to bottlenecks found in
end-nodes, interconnect devices and specialty functions located
along the network. Later sections discuss the inherent challenges
of modern cloud computing and data center networking.
The Future and FinTech examines the fundamental financial
technologies and its growing impact on the Banking, Financial
Services and Insurance (BFSI) sectors. With global investment
amounting to more than $100 billion in 2020, the proliferation of
FinTech has underpinned the direction payments, loans, wealth
management, insurance, and cryptocurrencies are heading.This book
presents FinTech from an industrial perspective in the context of
architecture and its basic building blocks, e.g., Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things
(IoT), and its connections to real-life applications at work. It
provides a detailed guidance on how FinTech digitalizes business
operations, improves productivity and efficiency, and optimizes
resource management with the help of some new concepts, such as
AIOps, MLOps and DevSecOps. Readers will also discover how FinTech
Innovations connect BFSI to the rest of the world with growing
interests in Open Banking, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and
FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS).To help readers understand how FinTech
has unlocked numerous opportunities for tapping into the massive
substantial group of customers, this book illustrates the massive
changes already underway and provides insights into changes yet to
come through practical examples and applications with illustrative
figures and summary tables, making this book a handy quick
reference for all things of FinTech.Related Link(s)
In the world of internet, wide adoption of computing devices
dramatically reduces storage costs with easy access to huge amount
of data, thus posing benefits and challenges to e-business amongst
organizations.This unique compendium covers current status and
practices of e-business among organizations, their challenges and
future directions. It also includes studies of different
perspectives and markets of e-business.The must-have volume will be
a good reference text for professionals and organizations who are
updating their e-business knowledge/skills and planning their
e-business initiatives.
This proceedings volume introduces recent work on the storage,
retrieval and visualization of spatial Big Data, data-intensive
geospatial computing and related data quality issues. Further, it
addresses traditional topics such as multi-scale spatial data
representations, knowledge discovery, space-time modeling, and
geological applications. Spatial analysis and data mining are
increasingly facing the challenges of Big Data as more and more
types of crowd sourcing spatial data are used in GIScience, such as
movement trajectories, cellular phone calls, and social networks.
In order to effectively manage these massive data collections, new
methods and algorithms are called for. The book highlights
state-of-the-art advances in the handling and application of
spatial data, especially spatial Big Data, offering a cutting-edge
reference guide for graduate students, researchers and
practitioners in the field of GIScience.
Solid-State NMR Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts and
Catalytic Reactions provides a comprehensive account of
state-of-the-art solid-state NMR techniques and the application of
these techniques in heterogeneous catalysts and related catalytic
reactions. It includes an introduction to the basic theory of
solid-state NMR and various frequently used techniques. Special
emphasis is placed on characterizing the framework and pore
structure, active site, guest-host interaction, and synthesis
mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysts using multinuclear one- and
two-dimensional solid-sate NMR spectroscopy. Additionally, various
in-situ solid-state NMR techniques and their applications in
investigation of the mechanism of industrially important catalytic
reactions are also discussed. Both the fundamentals and the latest
research results are covered, making the book suitable as a
reference guide for both experienced researchers in and newcomers
to this field. Feng Deng is a Professor at Wuhan Institute of
Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
This comprehensive work explores interfacial instability and
pattern formation in dynamic systems away from the equilibrium
state in solidification and crystal growth. Further, this
significantly expanded 2nd edition introduces and reviews the
progress made during the last two decades. In particular, it
describes the most prominent pattern formation phenomena commonly
observed in material processing and crystal growth in the framework
of the previously established interfacial wave theory, including
free dendritic growth from undercooled melt, cellular growth and
eutectic growth in directional solidification, as well as viscous
fingering in Hele-Shaw flow. It elucidates the key problems,
systematically derives their mathematical solutions by pursuing a
unified, asymptotic approach, and finally carefully examines these
results by comparing them with the available experimental results.
The asymptotic approach described here will be useful for the
investigation of pattern formation phenomena occurring in a much
broader class of inhomogeneous dynamical systems. In addition, the
results on global stability and selection mechanisms of pattern
formation will be of particular interest to researchers working on
material processing and crystal growth. The stability mechanisms of
a curved front and the pattern formation have been fundamental
subjects in the areas of condensed-matter physics, materials
science, crystal growth, and fluid mechanics for some time now.
This book offers a stimulating and insightful introduction for all
physicists, engineers and applied mathematicians working in the
fields of soft condensed-matter physics, materials science,
mechanical and chemical engineering, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear
sciences.
The book explains the principles and fundamentals of photocatalysis
and highlights the current developments and future potential of the
green-chemistry-oriented applications of various inorganic,
organic, and hybrid photocatalysts. The book consists of eleven
chapters, including the principles and fundamentals of
heterogeneous photocatalysis; the mechanisms and dynamics of
surface photocatalysis; research on TiO2-based composites with
unique nanostructures; the latest developments and advances in
exploiting photocatalyst alternatives to TiO2; and photocatalytic
materials for applications other than the traditional degradation
of pollutants, such as carbon dioxide reduction, water oxidation, a
complete spectrum of selective organic transformations and water
splitting by photocatalytic reduction. In addition, heterogeneized
polyoxometalate materials for photocatalytic purposes and the
proper design of photocatalytic reactors and modeling of light are
also discussed. This book appeals to a wide readership of the
academic and industrial researchers and it can also be used in the
classroom for undergraduate and graduate students focusing on
heterogeneous photocatalysis, sustainable chemistry, energy
conversion and storage, nanotechnology, chemical engineering,
environmental protection, optoelectronics, sensors, and surface and
interface science. Juan Carlos Colmenares is a Professor at the
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland. Yi-Jun Xu is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of
Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry,
Fuzhou University, China.
This book addresses one of the most important components for
pedestrian safety in vehicles - laminated windshields. It includes
detailed real-world material characterization results for laminated
glass and testing methodologies, constitutive models, and
step-by-step numerical simulation modeling and simulation methods.
As such, the book provides readers a thorough understanding of the
mechanical behaviors of laminated glass and windshields. It also
presents fundamental test data, analysis methodologies and
essential insights into laminated glass safety design and
mechanical behavior prediction. The book addresses the needs of
researchers, engineers and postgraduate students in the fields of
automotive engineering, mechanical engineering and related areas.
This comprehensive work explores interfacial instability and
pattern formation in dynamic systems away from the equilibrium
state in solidification and crystal growth. Further, this
significantly expanded 2nd edition introduces and reviews the
progress made during the last two decades. In particular, it
describes the most prominent pattern formation phenomena commonly
observed in material processing and crystal growth in the framework
of the previously established interfacial wave theory, including
free dendritic growth from undercooled melt, cellular growth and
eutectic growth in directional solidification, as well as viscous
fingering in Hele-Shaw flow. It elucidates the key problems,
systematically derives their mathematical solutions by pursuing a
unified, asymptotic approach, and finally carefully examines these
results by comparing them with the available experimental results.
The asymptotic approach described here will be useful for the
investigation of pattern formation phenomena occurring in a much
broader class of inhomogeneous dynamical systems. In addition, the
results on global stability and selection mechanisms of pattern
formation will be of particular interest to researchers working on
material processing and crystal growth. The stability mechanisms of
a curved front and the pattern formation have been fundamental
subjects in the areas of condensed-matter physics, materials
science, crystal growth, and fluid mechanics for some time now.
This book offers a stimulating and insightful introduction for all
physicists, engineers and applied mathematicians working in the
fields of soft condensed-matter physics, materials science,
mechanical and chemical engineering, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear
sciences.
This proceedings volume introduces recent work on the storage,
retrieval and visualization of spatial Big Data, data-intensive
geospatial computing and related data quality issues. Further, it
addresses traditional topics such as multi-scale spatial data
representations, knowledge discovery, space-time modeling, and
geological applications. Spatial analysis and data mining are
increasingly facing the challenges of Big Data as more and more
types of crowd sourcing spatial data are used in GIScience, such as
movement trajectories, cellular phone calls, and social networks.
In order to effectively manage these massive data collections, new
methods and algorithms are called for. The book highlights
state-of-the-art advances in the handling and application of
spatial data, especially spatial Big Data, offering a cutting-edge
reference guide for graduate students, researchers and
practitioners in the field of GIScience.
The book explains the principles and fundamentals of photocatalysis
and highlights the current developments and future potential of the
green-chemistry-oriented applications of various inorganic,
organic, and hybrid photocatalysts. The book consists of eleven
chapters, including the principles and fundamentals of
heterogeneous photocatalysis; the mechanisms and dynamics of
surface photocatalysis; research on TiO2-based composites with
unique nanostructures; the latest developments and advances in
exploiting photocatalyst alternatives to TiO2; and photocatalytic
materials for applications other than the traditional degradation
of pollutants, such as carbon dioxide reduction, water oxidation, a
complete spectrum of selective organic transformations and water
splitting by photocatalytic reduction. In addition, heterogeneized
polyoxometalate materials for photocatalytic purposes and the
proper design of photocatalytic reactors and modeling of light are
also discussed. This book appeals to a wide readership of the
academic and industrial researchers and it can also be used in the
classroom for undergraduate and graduate students focusing on
heterogeneous photocatalysis, sustainable chemistry, energy
conversion and storage, nanotechnology, chemical engineering,
environmental protection, optoelectronics, sensors, and surface and
interface science. Juan Carlos Colmenares is a Professor at the
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland. Yi-Jun Xu is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of
Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry,
Fuzhou University, China.
This book describes the setup of digital enterprises and how to
manage them, focusing primarily on the important knowledge and
essential understanding of digital enterprise management required
by managers and decision makers in organizations. It covers ten
essential knowledge areas of this field: * Foundation of Digital
Enterprise * Technology Foundation and Talent Management for
Digital Enterprise * Digital Enterprise Strategy Planning and
Implementation * B2C Digital Enterprise: E-tailing * B2C Digital
Enterprise: E-Services * B2B Digital Enterprise and Supply Chain *
Digital Platforms * Digital Marketing and Advertising * Digital
Payment Systems * Mobile Enterprise Overall, this text provides the
reader with the basics to understand the rapid development of
digitization, facilitated by the dramatic advancements in digital
technologies, extensively connected networks, and wider adoption of
computing devices (especially mobile devices), as more and more
organizations are realizing the strategic importance of
digitization (e.g., sustainable growth of the organization,
competitive advantage development and enhancement) and are
embarking on digital enterprise.
Information systems (IS)/Information technology(IT) has become an
essential part and a major resource of the organization. IS/IT is a
major resource that can radically affect the structure of an
organisation, the way it serves customers, and the way it helps
people in organisations to communicate both internally and
externally, and the way an organisation runs its business. Managing
information and information systems effectively and efficiently
have become an essential part of the life of 21st century managers.
This book is about Managing information and information systems and
focuses on relationships between information, information
systems/information technology, people and business. The impacts,
roles, risks, challenges as well as emerging trends of information
systems will be an important element of the book. At the same time,
many strategic and contemporary uses of information systems such as
implementing enterprise planning systems for improving internal
operation, adopting customer relationship management systems and
supply chain management systems to enhance relations with customers
and suppliers/partners respectively, and establishing knowledge
management systems for better managing organizational knowledge
resources as well as using different information systems for
supporting managers' decision making in all levels will be an
integral part of the book. In addition, essential and critical
information systems management skills including using information
systems for competitive advantages, planning and evaluating
information systems, system development & implementing
information systems, and managing information systems operations
will be a critical part of the book.
Semantic Matching in Search is a systematic and detailed
introduction to newly developed machine learning technologies for
query document matching (semantic matching) in search, particularly
in web search. It focuses on the fundamental problems, as well as
the state-of-the-art solutions of query document matching on form
aspect, phrase aspect, word sense aspect, topic aspect, and
structure aspect. Matching between query and document is not
limited to search, and similar problems can be found in question
answering, online advertising, cross-language information
retrieval, machine translation, recommender systems, link
prediction, image annotation, drug design, and other applications
where one is faced with the general task of matching between
objects from two different spaces. The technologies introduced in
this monograph can be generalized into more general machine
learning techniques, which are referred to as learning to match in
this survey. It is hoped that the ideas and solutions explained in
Semantic Matching in Search may motivate industrial practitioners
to turn the research results into products. The methods introduced
and the discussions around them should also stimulate academic
researchers to find new research directions and approaches.
Information systems (IS)/Information technology(IT) has become an
essential part and a major resource of the organization. IS/IT is a
major resource that can radically affect the structure of an
organisation, the way it serves customers, and the way it helps
people in organisations to communicate both internally and
externally, and the way an organisation runs its business. Managing
information and information systems effectively and efficiently
have become an essential part of the life of 21st century managers.
This book is about Managing information and information systems and
focuses on relationships between information, information
systems/information technology, people and business. The impacts,
roles, risks, challenges as well as emerging trends of information
systems will be an important element of the book. At the same time,
many strategic and contemporary uses of information systems such as
implementing enterprise planning systems for improving internal
operation, adopting customer relationship management systems and
supply chain management systems to enhance relations with customers
and suppliers/partners respectively, and establishing knowledge
management systems for better managing organizational knowledge
resources as well as using different information systems for
supporting managers' decision making in all levels will be an
integral part of the book. In addition, essential and critical
information systems management skills including using information
systems for competitive advantages, planning and evaluating
information systems, system development & implementing
information systems, and managing information systems operations
will be a critical part of the book.
Convective flow in the liquid phase is always present in a
realistic process of freezing and melting and may significantly
affect the dynamics and results of the process. The study of the
interplay of growth and convection flow during the solidification
has been an important subject in the broad fields of materials
science, condensed matter physics, fluid physics, micro-gravity
science, etc. The present book is concerned with the dynamics of
free dendritic growth with convective flow in the melt. It
systematically presents the results obtained in terms of a unified
asymptotic approach in the framework of the interfacial wave (IFW)
theory. In particular, the book explores the effect of the various
types of convection flow on the selection and pattern formation of
dendritic growth based on the global stability analysis.
Embarking on electronic business is a challenging task. There is
also a lack of clear understanding and comprehensive analysis of
various issues and domains of electronic business. This book offers
a very comprehensive analysis of concepts, models and
infrastructures of e-business. It also presents unique observations
of current e-business practices for different organizations in
different economies and provides insights on the future of current
leading businesses on the net and the trends of e-business. The
volume will be an effective and indispensible reference book for
professionals who are interested in or dealing with e-business and
businesses that are embarking on e-business.
Convective flow in the liquid phase is always present in a
realistic process of freezing and melting and may significantly
affect the dynamics and results of the process. The study of the
interplay of growth and convection flow during the solidification
has been an important subject in the broad fields of materials
science, condensed matter physics, fluid physics, micro-gravity
science, etc. The present book is concerned with the dynamics of
free dendritic growth with convective flow in the melt. It
systematically presents the results obtained in terms of a unified
asymptotic approach in the framework of the interfacial wave (IFW)
theory. In particular, the book explores the effect of the various
types of convection flow on the selection and pattern formation of
dendritic growth based on the global stability analysis.
This comprehensive compendium is about managing information systems
and focuses on relationships between information, information
systems, people and business. The impacts, roles, risks, challenges
as well as emerging trends of information systems are an important
element of the book.Essential and critical information systems
management skills including using information systems for
competitive advantages, planning and evaluating information
systems, developing and implementing information systems, and
managing information systems operation form a critical part of this
unique reference text.Current topics like digital platforms, agile
organization, DevOPs, blockchain, 5G, data center and quantum
computing prove indispensable for readers who want to stay in the
forefront of today's complex information systems.
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