Nonparametric estimation of the coefficient of overlapping - Theory and empirical application

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1583-1596

  Schmid, Friedrich ^a   Schmidt, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Revios Rückversicherung AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agreement of labor income distributions of men and women; Bias and variance of estimators; Coefficient of overlapping; German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP); Kernel density estimation; Monte Carlo simulation; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGREEMENT OF LABOR INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN; BIAS AND VARIANCE OF ESTIMATORS; COEFFICIENT OF OVERLAPPING; GERMAN SOCIOECONOMIC MODEL (GSOEP); NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 27744527963     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.01.014     Document Type: Article

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