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Median Unbiasedness of Estimators of Panel Data Censored Regression Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jeffrey R. Campbell
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Bo E. Honoré
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

Abstract

This note proves that the estimator of panel data censored regression models proposed in Honoré [2] is median unbiased when only one parameter is estimated. This result is obtained without parametric assumptions about the distribution of the error terms.

Type
Miscellanea
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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