Abstract Data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey is used to estimate distributions for the level of educational attainment for Australian indigenous and nonindigenous populations for the years 2001, 2006, 2014 and 2017. Bayesian inference is used to analyse how...

El análisis de la evolución de la tendencia del comportamiento de las mujeres en el mercado laboral nos sugiere que aún existen enormes diferencias de género, y que a pesar del avance durante estas últimas décadas de la incorporación de la mujer en el mundo del trabajo, la tasa de paro...

in letteratura, per l’imputazione dei dati mancanti nelle serie storiche, si fa riferimento a statistiche applicate all’intera serie analizzata (e.g. media di tutti i termini della serie), ottenendo una costante d’imputazione generalmente adeguata per una specifica serie. Se le serie sono...

Appropriate modelling of Likert-type items should account for the scale level and the specific role of the neutral middle category, which is present in most Likert-type items that are in common use. Powerful hierarchical models that account for both aspects are proposed. To avoid biased...

This paper uses individuals' self-assessments of their contribution to four household activities to study how mixed-gender couples divide household responsibility. Household responsibility dynamics are characterized according to a three-point ordinal variable, whose distribution is linked to a...

A study that would otherwise be eligible is commonly excluded from a meta-analysis when the standard error of its treatment-effect estimator, or the estimate of the variance of the outcomes, is not reported and cannot be recovered from the available information. This is wasteful when the...