his paper is concerned with conducting univariate multiple imputation for employee income data that is comprised of continuously distributed observations, observations that are bounded by consecutive income brackets, and observations that are missing. A variable with this mixture of data types...

As far as data on personal income are highly confidential and sensible, it is a common practice to collect such information by asking people to classify their own earnings along a discrete scale of income “brackets”. This procedure provides an unbiased estimation of average income, under...

We point out that Bayesian inference on the basis of a given sample is not always possible with continuous sampling models, even under a proper prior. The reason for this paradoxical situation is explained, and its empirical relevance is linked to coarse gathering of data, such as rounding. A...

We consider likelihood-based inference from multivariate regression models with independent Student-t errors. Some very intruiging pitfalls of both Bayesian and classical methods on the basis of point observations are uncovered. Bayesian inference may be precluded as a consequence of the coarse...