Comparing Predictions and Outcomes: Theory and Application to Income Changes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 75-85

  Das, Marcel ^a   Dominitz, Jeff ^b   van Soest, Arthur ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Labor Litigation Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

Income expectations; Ordered category data; Predictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293856     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473820     Document Type: Article

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