A simple nonparametric test for diagnosing nonlinearity in Tobit median regression model

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1034-1042

  Wang, Lan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Median regression; Nearest neighbor windows; Quantile; Smooth alternative; Specification test; Tobit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247127407     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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