Numerous developing countries have substantially increased their number of subnational
administrative units in recent years. The literature on this phenomenon is, nonetheless …

This monograph presents the basics of the composite marginal likelihood (CML) inference
approach, discussing the asymptotic properties of the CML estimator and the advantages …

Growth and yield simulators are often used to assess the long-term sustainability of selection
cuttings in northern hardwood stands. Because residual tree growth is affected by tree …

Using Texas add-on sample data from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey, this
study examines adult workers' daily active choice decisions in the context of physical activity …

We demonstrate that many current approaches for marginal modelling of correlated binary
outcomes produce likelihoods that are equivalent to the copula‐based models herein …

Spatially structured discrete data arise in diverse areas of application, such as forestry,
epidemiology, or soil sciences. Data from several binary variables are often collected at …

Statistical distributions of link and path travel times are important inputs to reliability-sensitive
transportation models. This paper proposes to use copula functions for specifying and …

Many motivations exist that cause legislators to behave strategically when voting. These
include logrolling, towing the party line, or political favor trading. However, it has proven …

Spatial analysis is gaining more popularity since Anselin in 1989 defined the newly born
field as “The collection of techniques concerning the peculiarities caused by space in the …