A Simple Method for Predicting Distributions by Means of Covariates with Examples from Poverty and Health Economics

Summary We present an integration based procedure for predicting the distribution f of an indicator of interest in situations where, in addition to the sample data, one has access to covariates that are available for the entire population. The proposed method, based on similar ideas that have been u...

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Main Authors: Jing Dai, Stefan Sperlich, Walter Zucchini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-01-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03399422