Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire

Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd ed.)

Measuring optimism in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese with the revised Life Orientation Test

This study examines how 90 university students and 77 old people in Beijing view filial piety in Chinese society now. The results show that old people continue to hold high filial expectations for young people and that young people still endorse strongly filial obligations for old people. Obedience received the lowest rating while respect received the highest rating. ‘‘Looking after the aged parents’’ and ‘‘assisting them financially’’ are the top filial concerns for young males whereas ‘‘retaining contact with the elders’’ is the top filial concern for young females. ‘‘Respecting elders but necessarily obeying them’’ appears to be a new cultural protocol for fulfilling filial obligations in Chinese societies now.

Filial Obligations and Expectations in China: Current Views from Young and Old People in Beijing

Aspects of creativity concepts across different Chinese populations were examined. A Likert style questionnaire consisting of 60 adjectives was administered to 451 undergraduates from Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei and Hong Kong. The results show that: (a) the core characteristics of creativity identical in all the samples are: “originality”, “innovativeness”, “thinking” and “observational skills”, “flexibility”, “willingness to try”, “self confidence”, and “imagination”; (b) the Taipei sample, unlike the other three samples, does not associate “wisdom”, “assertiveness”, and “individualism” with creativity; (c) in all Chinese populations the three factors labeled innovative, dynamic, and intellectual were distinguishable in the concept of creativity; (d) “artistic” and “humorous” were missing in the Chinese perception of creativity; (e) creativity characteristics received relatively low ratings on the desirability scale.

Xiaodong Yue

Papers

Measuring optimism in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese with the revised Life Orientation Test

Filial Obligations and Expectations in China: Current Views from Young and Old People in Beijing

Concepts of Creativity: Similarities and Differences among Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwanese Chinese

The assessment of optimistic self-beliefs: Comparison of the Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean versions of the general self-efficacy scale

Prevalence Estimates and Etiologic Models of Internet Addiction