Utilizing the flexibility of the epsilon-skew-normal distribution for tobit regression problems

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 408-423

  Mashtare Jr , Terry L ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Left censoring; Limit of detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Regression modeling

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BOX COX TRANSFORMATION; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; ERROR TERMS; FLEXIBLE MODEL; LEFT-CENSORING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARAMETRIC MODELS; REGRESSION MODEL; REGRESSION MODELING; SKEW-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TOBIT REGRESSION;

ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 78649280715     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920903377773     Document Type: Article

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