It is increasingly common for analysts to seek out the opinions of individuals and
organizations using attitudinal scales such as degree of satisfaction or importance attached …

In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of social comparisons and of social capital on
life satisfaction over a sample of Latin American countries. We test if, through social …

Local smoothing testing based on multivariate non-parametric regression estimation is one
of the main model checking methodologies in the literature. However, the relevant tests …

This study combines a widely held view of how earnings are related to education and job
tenure (The Mincer model1) with the notion that earnings are associated with the quality of …

The ordered probit and logit models, based on the normal and logistic distributions, can
yield biased and inconsistent estimators when the distributions are misspecified. A …

Objectives Little attention has been paid to questions about the applicability of parametric
models to age estimation data and the related problem of how to adjust trait scoring in light …

This paper considers moment-based tests applied to estimated quantities. We propose a
general class of transforms of moments to handle the parameter uncertainty problem. The …

This article proposes a nonparametric projection-based adaptive-to-model specification test
for regressions with discrete and continuous predictors. The test statistic is asymptotically …

In this paper, we develop moment-based tests for parametric discrete distributions.
Momentbased test techniques are attractive as they provide easy-to-implement test statistics …

This research considers important aspects of bus service improvement through a detailed
investigation of bus operations and service quality initiatives introduced in the context of an …