Estimation of the SUR Tobit model via the MCECM algorithm

Economics Letters

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Huang, Ho Chuan ^a  

^a SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

C15; C34; EM algorithm; Monte Carlo; SUR; Tobit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033416124     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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