A zero-inflated ordered probit model, with an application to modelling tobacco consumption

Data for discrete ordered dependent variables are often characterised by "excessive" zero observations which may relate to two distinct data generating processes. Traditional ordered probit models have limited capacity in explaining this preponderance of zero observations. We propose a zer...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Harris, Mark, Zhao, X.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81800