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Name:  John Komlos
Email:  jk at econhist.de
Institution:  Department of Economics, University of Munich, Germany

Co-author: none

Title:  How to (and How Not to) Analyze Deficient Height Samples

Internet Address of abstracted work:
http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/ls_komlos/howto.pdf

By mail:
Ludwigstraþe 33/IV D-80539 Munich, Germany

Language:  English

Abstract:
There are a large number of challenges associated with the analysis 
of height data from military records on account of the enforcement of 
minimum height requirements. This essay provides an overview of two 
decades of experience with working such truncated height 
distributions and concludes that truncated OLS or truncated maximum 
likelihood regressions are the appropriate methods to apply to such 
samples.

Bibliography: Komlos, John. "How to (and How Not to) Analyze 
Deficient Height Samples." University of Munich, unpublished 
manuscript, 2003.

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