Varying coefficient regression models are known to be very useful tools for analysing the
relation between a response and a group of covariates. Their structure and interpretability …

Background: In December 2019, an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan, China and has swiftly spread to other parts of …

Background: The emerging virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), has caused a large outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since the …

The emerging N501Y mutation in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which
becomes prevalent in the UK rapidly, is one of the major challenges of COVID-19 control. To …

A series of fundamental and market-oriented reforms since 1978 have dramatically
reshaped China's agricultural sector, which had been sluggish during the socialist period …

Computer simulations based on mathematical models have become ubiquitous across the
engineering disciplines and throughout the physical sciences. Successful use of a …

The majority of empirical research in economics ignores the potential benefits of
nonparametric methods, while the majority of advances in nonparametric theory ignores the …

The penalized least squares approach with smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty has
been consistently demonstrated to be an attractive regression shrinkage and selection …

The varying coefficient models are very important tool to explore the dynamic pattern in
many scientific areas, such as economics, finance, politics, epidemiology, medical science …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged by end of 2019, and became a
serious public health threat globally in less than half a year. The generation interval and …