The Brabant Data Set, now freely accessible, contains informationon a sample cohort of 3,000 individuals born around 1940 from surveysin 1952, 1983 and 1993, as well as on deaths between 1994 and 2009.In line with numerous epidemiological studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at...

A bank employs logistic regression with state-dependent sample selection to identify loans thatmay go wrong. Inspection shows that the logit model is inappropriate. A bounded logit model witha ceiling of (far) less than 1 fits the data much better.

The discrete outcome of a probability model is recordedas Y(i)=1 while otherwise Y(i)=0. y is the vector of observedoutcomes, p the corresponding probabilities, p^a consistent estimate of p, and residuals are defined ase = y - p^. Under quite general conditions, theasymptotic properties of p^...

This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory.

In binary discrete regression models like logit or probit the omis- sion of a relevant regressor (even if it is orthogonal) depresses the re- maining <font face="Symbol">b</font> coefficients towards zero. For the probit model, Wooldridge (2002) has shown that this bias does not carry over to the effect of the regressor...