We review statistical methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs, their ability
to address skewness, excess zeros, multimodality and heavy right tails, and their ease for …

This article reviews recent significant progress made in developing estimation and inference
methods for nonlinear models in the presence of mismeasured data that may or may not …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

Chapter 1 describes two broad paradigms for measuring economic efficiency, one based on
an essentially nonparametric, programming approach to analysis of observed outcomes …

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques
and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest …

This article explores the copula approach for econometric modeling of joint parametric
distributions. Although theoretical foundations of copulas are complex, this paper …

The authors review various facts about copulas linking discrete distributions. They show how
the possibility of ties that results from atoms in the probability distribution invalidates various …

The dominant approach in the literature to dealing with sample selection is to assume a
bivariate normality assumption directly on the error terms, or on transformed error terms, in …

This paper looks at a little-explored role that universities can play: that of representing a
channel for brain gain, enabling regions to attract bright students who may decide to stay …

Copulas are functions that describe the dependence between two or more random
variables. This article provides a brief review of copula theory and two areas of economics in …