Lectures on Longitudinal Analysis
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8133-8889-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is an in-depth exploration of longitudinal analysis. Examining models in which events marking transitions between multiple states generate observed durations, it explores statistical estimation of such models, with examples from demography, epidemiology and labour economics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8889-2 (9780813388892)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Duration models: review of data-collection techniques; simple duration models; duration models with covariates; duration models and unobservable heterogeneity; testing the form of a switching process. Part 2 Econometric issues in longitudinal analysis: a review of basic econometric approaches to panel data; selection bias in a model of training and earnings; issues in estimating continuous time duration models; econometric mixture models and more general treatments of unobservables.