Testing the normality assumption in the tobit model

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 521-532

  Holden, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hours of work equations; Language multiplier (score) tests; Normality; Tobit (censored regression) and probit models

Indexed keywords

EID: 3442887338     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760410001681783     Document Type: Article

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