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Logit and probit : ordered and multinomial models / Vani K. Borooah.

Lippincott Library HA31.7 .B67 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Borooah, Vani K.
Series:
Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-138.
Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; v. 138
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Social sciences.
Probabilities.
Logits.
Probits.
Physical Description:
vi, 97 pages ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, [2002]
Summary:
This book discusses the estimation, simulation, and interpretation of models with multiple outcomes, when these outcomes are either ordered or unordered, against the backdrop of examples relating to socioeconomic inequality.& The book includes exposition of the important distinction between odds-ratios and risk-ratios, logit versus probit (and, vice-versa) as well as a step-by-step explanation of the practical computing procedures that underpin the analysis.&&
Contents:
2. Ordered Models 4
Methodology 7
Application to Deprivation Status 15
Estimation Over Subsamples: Characteristics Versus Coefficients 36
3. Multinomial Logit 45
A Random Utility Model 45
The Class of Logit Models: Multinomial and Conditional 47
Multinomial Logit 47
Application to Occupational Outcomes 52
Country of Birth 54
Area of Residence 55
Conditional Logit and the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives 72
4. Program Listings 76
Ordered Probit and Logit Programs 77
Multinomial Logit Programs 85.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).
ISBN:
0761922423
OCLC:
46936102

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