Concern over the distributional effects of policies which induce changes in peer group
structure, or 'associational redistributions'(Durlauf, 1996c), motivates a substantial body of …

Hidden Markov models—most often abbreviated to the acronym “HMMs”—are one of the
most successful statistical modelling ideas that have came up in the last forty years: the use …

This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income
prospects. In addition to estimating the impact of individuals' socioeconomic background …

The first goal of this paper is to provide a simple and general test of the presence of
asymmetric information in contractual relationships within a competitive context. We also …

The focus of this book is on models for contingency table analysis. It deals mainly with log-
linear models and special models for ordinal data (log-linear or nonlinear). Special models …

Despite the development and growth of Islamic finance, the academic literature on the
subject, while increasing, has so far provided no information on the calendar anomalies in …

An up-to-date approach to understanding statistical inference Statistical inference is finding
useful applications in numerous fields, from sociology and econometrics to biostatistics. This …

This article surveys ways of taking order restrictions into account in the analysis of
contingency tables. The methods are best suited for tables in which at least one …

The authors show how the use of inequality constraints on parameters in structural equation
models may affect the distribution of the likelihood ratio test. Inequality constraints are …

In this paper we consider the issue of performing statistical inference for Lorenz curve
orderings. This involves testing for an ordered relationship in a multivariate context and …