Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit: A New Method

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 286-313

  Karlson, Kristian Bernt ^a   Holm, Anders ^a   Breen, Richard ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation; confounding; indirect effects; Logit; probit; rescaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993708256     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081175012444861     Document Type: Article

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