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The Relationship between Event History and Discrete Time Duration Models: An Application to the Analysis of Personnel Absenteeism
Author(s) -
Barmby Tim
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0084.00099
Subject(s) - duration (music) , absenteeism , event (particle physics) , econometrics , estimation , discrete time and continuous time , statistics , discrete event simulation , event data , computer science , mathematics , operations research , economics , psychology , social psychology , physics , management , quantum mechanics , covariate , acoustics
This note discussed the parameterisation of a conventional event history model which allows the researcher to directly recover the parameters that would be obtained from a direct estimation of the discrete duration model. This method is esentially that described in Yamaguchi (1991), but deserves to be more widely known.