Chen examines China's unwavering foreign policy toward North Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia, challenging conventional international relations theory. He introduces "buffer thinking"—a geopolitical mentality driving China to secure peripheral territories against potential rivals regardless of global power shifts.  Meer

This book’s exploration of many common statistical problems with real-world examples makes it an invaluable reference for research professionals...  Meer

Introduces flexible statistical models that have yet to systematically introduced in course materials. Discusses applications of the proposed modelling framework in several important statistical problems, ranging from biased sampling designs and missing data, graphical models, survival analysis, Gibbs sampler and model compatibility, and density estimations Includes real data examples to demonstrate the use of the proposed models, and estimation and inference tools.  Meer