The legal high: Factors affecting young consumers' risk perceptions and abuse of prescription drugs

R Netemeyer, S Burton, B Delaney… - Journal of Public …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, adolescent prescription drug abuse (PDA) has become such a
serious public health problem that it is now classified as an epidemic. In addition, people …

Change point testing in logistic regression models with interaction term

Y Fong, C Di, S Permar - Statistics in medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A threshold effect takes place in situations where the relationship between an outcome
variable and a predictor variable changes as the predictor value crosses a certain …

Empirical likelihood test in a posteriori change-point nonlinear model

G Ciuperca, Z Salloum - Metrika, 2015 - Springer
In this paper, in order to test whether changes have occurred in a nonlinear parametric
regression, we propose a nonparametric method based on the empirical likelihood. Firstly …

Threshold effect test in censored quantile regression

Y Tang, X Song, Z Zhu - Statistics & Probability Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose a new test for covariate-threshold caused change point in quantile regression
with random censoring, based on partial subgradient. Critical values are obtained using wild …