Alternative estimating and testing empirical strategies for fractional regression models

EA Ramalho, JJS Ramalho… - Journal of Economic …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In many economic settings, the variable of interest is often a fraction or a proportion, being
defined only on the unit interval. The bounded nature of such variables and, in some cases …

Supervisory styles of patrol sergeants and lieutenants

RS Engel - Journal of criminal justice, 2001 - Elsevier
Scholars across academic disciplines have advanced theories identifying leadership styles.
While these theoretical approaches have been used in a variety of settings, few police …

A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables.

M Smithson, J Verkuilen - Psychological methods, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Uncorrectable skew and heteroscedasticity are among the “lemons” of psychological data,
yet many important variables naturally exhibit these properties. For scales with a lower and …

[图书][B] Working, shirking, and sabotage: Bureaucratic response to a democratic public

JO Brehm, S Gates - 1999 - books.google.com
Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives
of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do? John Brehm and Scott Gates …

[图书][B] Armed servants: Agency, oversight, and civil-military relations

PD Feaver - 2003 - degruyter.com
The tragic events of 11 September 2001 and America's response thereto underscored the
centrality of military power, even in a modern liberal democracy. The brutal return to …

[图书][B] Bending the rules: Procedural politicking in the bureaucracy

RA Potter - 2019 - books.google.com
Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-
after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and …

Bounded rationality and political science: Lessons from public administration and public policy

BD Jones - Journal of Public Administration Research and …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
By 1958, a model of human behavior capable of serving as the microlevel foundation for
organizational and policy studies was in place. The scientific soundness of that model is …

Connecting the dots in public management: Political environment, organizational goal ambiguity, and the public manager's role ambiguity

SK Pandey, BE Wright - Journal of Public Administration …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
This article is a systematic effort to study a key theoretical question from the vantage point of
public sector organizational behavior. Most political science models, with a primary interest …

[图书][B] Generalized linear models: a unified approach

J Gill, JM Gill, M Torres, SMT Pacheco - 2019 - books.google.com
Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach provides an introduction to and overview of
GLMs, with each chapter carefully laying the groundwork for the next. The Second Edition …

Maximum likelihood estimation of models with beta-distributed dependent variables

P Paolino - Political Analysis, 2001 - cambridge.org
Research in political science is often concerned with modeling dependent variables that are
proportions. Proportions are relevant in a wide variety of substantive areas, including …