The usefulness and uselessness of the decomposition of tobit coefficients

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 572-582

  Kang, Jeong Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Methodology; Selection model; Tobit

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247132747     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124106292359     Document Type: Article

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