A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data

J Heckman, B Singer - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1984 - JSTOR
… for jointly estimating the distribution of unobservables, and the structural parameters of the
… This paper demonstrated the sensitivity of parameter estimates obtained from econometric …

Conditional parameter estimates from Mixed Logit models: distributional assumptions and a free software tool

S Hess - Journal of Choice Modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
parameter estimates. To ensure consistency of the results, the … Biogeme estimates and
conditional parameter estimatesdistribution, which is only implemented with some parameter

Parameter variability and distributional assumptions in the diffusion model.

R Ratcliff - Psychological review, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
… Even in fitting the standard model to simulated data generated from the standard model,
there can be biases in parameter estimates, especially when there are limited numbers of …

Testing distributional assumptions: A GMM aproach

C Bontemps, N Meddahi - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… We consider testing distributional assumptions by using … that are robust against parameter
estimation error uncertainty in … by testing the Student distributional assumption of T-GARCH …

Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

H Schielzeth, NJ Dingemanse… - Methods in ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Here we address several general questions about the robustness of LMMs to violations of
distributional assumptions at each level of a model. We focus on parameter estimates, ie the …

On detecting the failure of distributional assumptions

A Chesher, T Lancaster, M Irish - Annales de l'Insee, 1985 - JSTOR
… procedure directed towards determining departures from assumptions concerning distributional
shape. Specifically we consider the usefulness of estimates of the distribu tion function of …

[HTML][HTML] Forecasting value-at-risk under different distributional assumptions

M Braione, NK Scholtes - Econometrics, 2016 - mdpi.com
… We iterate this process until the end of the dataset for a total of 35 parameter estimates and
700 one-step ahead forecasts. Table A1 in Appendix B reports the complete list of windows …

Distributional assumptions and the estimation of contingent valuation models

JB McDonald, DB Walton, B Chia - Computational Economics, 2020 - Springer
… 2.3 Distributional Assumptions and Estimation As noted in the introduction, the properties
of the parameter estimates can be sensitive to the distributional assumptions. Various …

Dealing with distributional assumptions in preregistered research

MN Williams, C Albers - Meta-Psychology, 2019 - conferences.lnu.se
parameter estimates, right through to parameter estimates fundamentally losing their intended
1 By “distributional assumption” we mean an assumption … , or multivariate distribution of …

Sensitivity analysis of a sensitivity analysis: We are likely overlooking the impact of distributional assumptions

L Paleari, R Confalonieri - Ecological Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
… for X i (or test alternate distributions), (iii) estimating distribution parameters (eg, mean
and standard deviation in case of normality) for X i . The cardinality of the various X i can be …