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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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