On the estimation of a binary response model in a selected population

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3293-3303

  Stingo, Francesco Claudio ^a   Stanghellini, Elena ^b   Capobianco, Rosa ^c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graph; Extended skew normal distribution; Hidden truncation; Instrumental variables; Self selection; Unobserved confounder

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957664470     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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