A note on distortions induced by truncation with applications to linear regression systems

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 824-829

  Marchetti, Giovanni M ^a   Stanghellini, Elena ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Statistica G Parenti   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Economia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditional independence model; Directed acyclic graphs; Incidental truncation; Selection bias; Truncated normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749094508     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.09.050     Document Type: Article

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