Copula regression spline sample selection models: The R package SemiParSampleSel

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wojtyś, Małgorzata ^a,b   Marra, Giampiero ^c   Radice, Rosalba ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copula; Non random sample selection; Penalized regression spline; R; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982070004     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v071.i06     Document Type: Article

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