An illustration of Cox's non-nested testing procedure for logit and probit models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-444

  Monfardini, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Discrete choice models; Non nested testing; Simulation based inference

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECIFICATIONS;

PROBIT MODELS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037471372     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00216-5     Document Type: Article

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