1st Edition

Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables

By Michael Smithson, Edgar C. Merkle Copyright 2014
308 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

312 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

308 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables is designed for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral, social, health, and medical sciences. It incorporates examples of truncated counts, censored continuous variables, and doubly bounded continuous variables, such as percentages. The book provides broad, but unified, coverage, and the authors... Read more

Introduction and Overview. DISCRETE VARIABLES: Binary. Nominal Multi-Category. Ordinal-Categorical. Count Data. CONTINUOUS VARIABLES: Doubly Bounded. Censored and Truncated. EXTENSIONS: Multi-Level Models. Bayesian MCMC Estimation. Appendices. Web-Based Supplementary Materials.

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Michael Smithson, Edgar C. Merkle