PURPOSE:: Reported prevalence estimates for fecal incontinence among community-
dwelling adults vary widely. A systematic review was undertaken to investigate the studied …

SUMMARY A review of methods for the analysis of the geographical distribution of disease
is presented. The topic is of increasing interest to statisticians, though much groundwork has …

We describe the maximum likelihood method for fitting the linear model when residuals are
correlated and when the covariance among the residuals is determined by a parametric …

Impulse buying and variety seeking are low-effort feelings-based behaviors, yet the
similarities and differences in their socio-psychological origin are under-explored. This …

Methods for estimating regional mortality and disease rates, with a view to mapping disease,
are discussed. A new empirical Bayes estimator, with parameters simply estimated by …

Existing research shows that loyalty is a function of customer perceptions of trust following
service recovery. The authors propose a cognitive appraisal model that portrays trust and …

Rather than taking the more traditional approach of measuring brand equity for accounting
or strategic reasons, the approach taken here is concerned with optimizing brand equity …

A critique is presented of the use of tree-based partitioning algorithms to formulate
classification rules and identify subgroups from clinical and epidemiological data. It is …

National cultures represent complex configurations of values rather than a collection of
distinct individual value dimensions. This presentation applies qualitative (configural) …

This paper provides emic and etic interpretations of engagement with a consumer-to-
consumer (C2C) online auction site, based on in-depth interviews with buyers. The study …