Econometric analysis of non-standard count data

This thesis discusses various issues in the estimation of models for count data. In the first part of the thesis, we derive an analytic expression for the bias of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the parameter in a doubly-truncated Poisson distribution, which proves highly effective as a me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godwin, Ryan T.
Other Authors: Giles, David E. A.
Language:English
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Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4315