Association of zero-inflated continuous variables

Zero-inflated continuous distributions are used for modeling in many research areas such as health, environment, or insurance. Since classical estimator of Kendall’s τ becomes biased when applied to such data, we propose an estimator that has a smaller bias and better coverage probability.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Pimentel, Ronald S. ; Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena ; Wang, Jung-Chao
Published in:	Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 96.2015, C, p. 61-67
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Bivariate zero-heavy data \| Bivariate zero-inflated data \| Kendall’s tau

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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