The purpose of this article is to inform criminological researchers about tobit regression, an alternative regression model that deserves more attention in this field. Tobit regression is intended for ...

Bayesian inference and model comparisons are easily performed quite accurately using Gibbs sampling, even if (1) the likelihood is analytically intractable and (2 ...

The LIFEREG procedure in SAS/STAT software fits parametric models to failure time or other kinds of duration data that may be right-, left-, or interval-censored. The models for the response variable ...

In Japan, medical expenditures have been increasing rapidly and exceeded 42 trillion yen in fiscal year 2015. It is expected that medical expenditures will continue to increase due to aging population ...