(2002). Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance. Journal of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 97, No. 457, pp. 360-360.

Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance

The history of an individual or group can always be characterized as a sequence of events People finish school, enter the labor force, marry, give birth, get promoted, change employers, retire, and ultimately die Formal organizations merge, adopt innovations, and go bankrupt Nations experience wars, revolutions, and peaceful changes of government It is surely the business of sociology to explain and predict the occurrence of such events Why is it, for example, that some individuals try marijuana while others do not? Why do some people marry early while others marry late? Do educational

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Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories

Guidelines for reporting morbidity and mortality after cardiac valvular operations

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Introduction to sample size determination and power analysis for clinical trials.

Black teenagers living in metropolitan areas of the United States initiate sexual intercourse at earlier ages than other teenagers and have higher rates of premarital pregnancy. Ethnographic studies of black families have claimed that economic uncertainties cause young blacks to delay marriage, while many young women achieve adulthood through premarital parenthood. It is also probable that girls who grow up in a female-headed family or who see their sisters become teenage parents are more likely to accept single-parenthood as a way to achieve adult status. These studies have suggested that ghetto neighborhoods are characterized by loosely defined and enforced norms of sexual behavior and age and sex compositions conducive to juvenile deviance. These features of ghetto life make it difficult for parents to regulate successfully their children's behaviors. As a consequence, residents of ghetto neighborhoods are expected to initiate sexual intercourse at earlier ages and to have higher rates of accidental premarital pregnancy than other teens. These hypotheses have received limited support in previous demographic research on teenage fertility. In this paper, these ethnographic explanations of the fertility behaviors of black adolescents are tested, using data from a random sample of more than 1,000 black females aged 13-19 who lived in the city of Chicago in 1979. This analysis improves on previous demographic research by both measuring the total effects of these variables on fertility and decomposing them into components due to effects on rates of initial sexual

The Impact of Social Status, Family Structure, and Neighborhood on the Fertility of Black Adolescents

(1976). Survival Distributions: Reliability Applications in the Biomedical Sciences. Technometrics: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 501-501.

Survival Distributions: Reliability Applications in the Biomedical Sciences

Survival Probabilities: The Goal of Risk Theory

(1980). Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. Technometrics: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 280-280.

Peter F. Heil

Papers

Survival Distributions: Reliability Applications in the Biomedical Sciences

Survival Probabilities: The Goal of Risk Theory

Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, Second Edition

Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences@@@Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences