Health care expenditures and use are challenging to model because these dependent
variables typically have distributions that are skewed with a large mass at zero. In this article …

Gaining a better understanding of the factors that affect the likelihood of a vehicle crash has
been an area of research focus for many decades. However, in the absence of detailed …

Are social media posts with pictures more popular than those without? Why do pictures with
certain characteristics induce higher engagement than some other pictures? Using data sets …

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models with R-INLA provides a much needed,
practically oriented & innovative presentation of the combination of Bayesian methodology …

This entry-level text offers clear and concise guidelines on how to select, construct, interpret,
and evaluate count data. Written for researchers with little or no background in advanced …

When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of
state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's …

Many sharing-economy websites like Airbnb that offer vacation-rental options for travelers
are very popular. However, few studies targeting the vacation-rental industry have …

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to
modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response …

When formulating international trade agreements, policymakers should consider not only
their trade-creation effect but also their impact on the environment. This paper is an …

Statistical modeling is a powerful tool for developing and testing theories by way of causal
explanation, prediction, and description. In many disciplines there is near-exclusive use of …