The loss in efficiency from using grouped data to estimate coefficients of group level variables

Computational Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-361

  Lang, Kathleen M ^a   Gottschalk, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grouped Data; Relative Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 25644458586     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119480     Document Type: Article

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