We estimate Cox models to determine proportional hazard rates in professional basketball, concerning leaving the league or changing the team by using a database covering all players of the NBA in the 90's. We predict and confirm that league-hazards depend on a player's performance. A...

In this paper, we discuss how to best exploit the information contained in spells that are in progress when an observation period begins, that is, left-censored and left-truncated duration data. We provide a survey of censoring and truncation mechanisms in event history models. We describe some...

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the effects of governmentally promoted credit access on the investment behaviour of credit rationed farmers. This is done by specifying an empirical investment equation which is estimated on a cross-sectional sample of Polish farm household data....

Die Arbeit umfaßt die Darstellung und Anwendung von Regressionsmodellen für Zähldaten, deren abhängige Variable nur nichtnegative ganzzahlige Werte annehmen kann. Die Spezifikationen des Poisson- und des NegBin 2-Modells mit den zugehörigen Schätzverfahren und Beurteilungskriterien werden...