The duration of trade revisited: Continuous-time versus discrete-time hazards

W Hess, M Persson - Empirical Economics, 2012 - Springer
The recent literature on the duration of trade has predominantly analyzed the determinants
of trade flow durations using Cox proportional hazards models. The purpose of this article is …

riskRegression: predicting the risk of an event using Cox regression models

B Ozenne, AL Sørensen, T Scheike, C Torp-Pedersen… - The R Journal, 2017 - vbn.aau.dk
In the presence of competing risks a prediction of the time-dynamic absolute risk of an event
can be based on cause-specific Cox regression models for the event and the competing …

Expectation maximization algorithm for one shot device accelerated life testing with Weibull lifetimes, and variable parameters over stress

N Balakrishnan, MH Ling - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In reliability analysis, accelerated life-tests are commonly used for inducing more failures,
thus obtaining more lifetime information in a relatively short period of time. In this paper, we …

Factors contributing to the duration of untreated psychosis

SY Apeldoorn, B Sterk, ER van den Heuvel… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Shortening the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP)–with the aim of
improving the prognosis of psychotic disorders–requires an understanding of the causes of …

Survival analysis of factors affecting the timing of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions by US universities

KE Cevasco, AA Roess, HM North, SA Zeitoun… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background During March of 2020 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) announced non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) guidance as the primary mitigation …

Biosocial correlates of age at menarche in a British cohort

M Krzyżanowska, CGN Mascie-Taylor… - Annals of human …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: A large number of biosocial variables have been shown to associate with age
at menarche, but the results are inconsistent and differentiate not only between countries but …

Innovation and survival of new firms in Chinese manufacturing, 2000-2006

M Zhang, P Mohnen - 2013 - collections.unu.edu
Using a large dataset of over 100,000 Chinese firms created between 2000 and 2006, we
explore whether there is a link between innovation effort (R&D) or innovation output (the …

Optimal design of simple step-stress accelerated life tests for one-shot devices under exponential distributions

MH Ling - Probability in the Engineering and Informational …, 2019 - cambridge.org
This paper considers simple step-stress accelerated life tests (SSALTs) for one-shot devices.
The one-shot device is an item that cannot be used again after the test, for instance …

Objective Bayesian survival analysis using shape mixtures of log-normal distributions

CA Vallejos, MFJ Steel - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Survival models such as the Weibull or log-normal lead to inference that is not robust to the
presence of outliers. They also assume that all heterogeneity between individuals can be …

Imputation of discrete and continuous missing values in large datasets using Bayesian based ant colony optimization

R Devi Priya, R Sivaraj - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2016 - Springer
When preparing large databases, obtaining quality data for analysis without any missing
values is almost impossible in many cases. Integration of raw data from multiple …