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Changes in Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Well-Being and Their Interrelationship among the Elderly in Singapore and Taiwan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
An Extended General Location Model for Causal Inferences from Data Subject to Noncompliance and Missing Values
(Blackwell Publishing, 2004-09)
Noncompliance is a common problem in experiments involving randomized assignment of treatments, and standard analyses based on intention-to-treat or treatment received have limitations. An attractive alternative is to ...
Men, women, and sustainability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-11)
Understanding the Links Among School Misbehavior, Academic Achievement, and Cigarette Use: A National Panel Study of Adolescents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-06)
Relations among academic achievement, school bonding, school misbehavior, and cigarette use from 8th to 12th grade were examined in two national panel samples of youth ( n = 3056). A series of competing conceptual models ...
Estimation of the proportion of overweight individuals in small areas—a robust extension of the Fay–Herriot model
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-06-15)
Hierarchical model such as Fay–Herriot (FH) model is often used in small area estimation. The method might perform well overall but is vulnerable to outliers. We propose a robust extension of the FH model by assuming the ...
Land Use and First Birth Timing in an Agricultural Setting
(2007)
The dramatic changes in the earth’s landscape have prompted increased
interest in the links between population, land use, and land cover. Previous research
emphasized the notion of population pressure (population pressure ...
"From sweet potatoes to God almighty": Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog
(American Ethnologist, 2007)
Complex sample design effects and inference for mental health survey data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-02)
Mental health researchers world-wide are using large-scale sample survey methods to study mental health epidemiology and services utilization in general, non-clinical populations (Alegria et al. in press). This article ...
Sex differences in complaints and diagnoses
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-12)
This paper examines male-female differences in complaints and diagnoses for ambulatory care visits. Data are from the 1975 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a national probability survey of visits to office-based ...