On sample selection models and skew distributions

This thesis is concerned with methods for dealing with missing data in nonrandom samples and recurrent events data. The first part of this thesis is motivated by scores arising from questionnaires which often follow asymmetric distributions, on a fixed range. This can be due to scores clustering at...

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Main Author: Ogundimu, Emmanuel O.
Published: University of Warwick 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582436