Methods textbooks in sociology and other social sciences routinely recommend the use of
the logit or probit model when an outcome variable is binary, an ordered logit or ordered …

The hazard function plays a central role in survival analysis. In a homogeneous population,
the distribution of the time to event, described by the hazard, is the same for each individual …

Background Although the increased prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States
has been documented, little is known about its incidence. We report here on the national …

内容提要: 出口持续时间研究为保障出口持续平稳发展提供了新视角. 本文基于2000-2005
年中国海关数据库和工业企业数据库的匹配数据估计了中国企业的出口持续时间 …

The geroscience hypothesis posits that therapies to slow biological processes of aging can
prevent disease and extend healthy years of life. To test such “geroprotective” therapies in …

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised
edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role …

More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

Human senescence has been delayed by a decade. This finding, documented in 1994 and
bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, and one …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Paleodemography and paleopathology presuppose that direct relationships exist between
statistics calculated from archaeological skeletal series (eg, skeletal lesion frequencies and …