Feng Chen
University of New South Wales
42 Papers
70 Citations
Feng Chen is an academic researcher from University of New South Wales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Estimator & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 38 publications. Previous affiliations of Feng Chen include Lanzhou University & University of Hong Kong.
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Papers
The foxconn suicides and their media prominence: is the werther effect applicable in china?
TL;DR: The results support a temporal clustering effect for the Foxconn suicides, and regional diversity in suicide reporting tempo-patterns within Mainland China, and similarities between HK and TW, are demonstrated.
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The impact of media reporting of suicide on actual suicides in Taiwan, 2002–05
TL;DR: The presence of the AD in Taiwan has fuelled competitive reporting of suicide news among traditional newspapers and had an impact on the actual number of suicides, providing further empirical support for improving media reporting as a key element in suicide prevention.
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The role of media in preventing student suicides: A Hong Kong experience
TL;DR: The analyses suggested, but could not confirm, a causal relationship between the changes of student suicide news-reporting and the incidents of suicides themselves, but the higher intensity of preventive-reporting seemed to have a protective effect on student suicide.
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Media effects on suicide methods: A case study on Hong Kong 1998-2005.
TL;DR: The emerging of CB suicide method did not substitute media coverage of non-CB suicide in HK, and media effects in this case were not limited to new suicide method or celebrity suicide.
Direct Likelihood Evaluation for the Renewal Hawkes Process
Feng Chen,Tom Stindl +1 more
TL;DR: An algorithm is provided that evaluates the likelihood of the RHawkes process in quadratic time, a drastic improvement from the exponential time claimed by Wheatley, Filimonov, and Sornette.
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