Essays on the measurements sensitivity of risk aversion and causal effects in education
Author: Adam Sanoé Booij
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9036101190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adam Sanoé Booij
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9036101190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Taoying Farenhorst-Yuan
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 905170660X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Selmar Meents
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9036101239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Xiaolong Liu
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9036101999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hui-Ting Wu
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9036101913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Abram van Dijk
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9036101344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finite mixture distributions are a weighted average of a finite number of distributions. The latter are usually called the mixture components. The weights are usually described by a multinomial distribution and are sometimes called mixing proportions. The mixture components may be the same type of distributions with di®erent parameter values but they may also be completely different distributions. Therefore, finite mixture distributions are very °exible for modeling data. They are frequently used as a building block within many modern econometric models. The specification of the mixture distribution depends on the modeling problem at hand. In this thesis, we introduce new applications of finite mixtures to deal with several di®erent modeling issues. Each chapter of the thesis focusses on a specific modeling issue. The parameters of some of the resulting models can be estimated using standard techniques but for some of the chapters we need to develop new estimation and inference methods. To illustrate how the methods can be applied, we analyze at least one empirical data set for each approach. These data sets cover a wide range of research fields, such as macroeconomics, marketing, and political science. We show the usefulness of the methods and, in some cases, the improvement over previous methods in the literature.
Author: Tse-Chun Lin
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9036101514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Assil Al- Ibrahim
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9036101743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marta Isabel López Yurda
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9036101220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author:
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9036101751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →