Forecasting credit hours

被引:4
作者
Bivin, D [1 ]
Rooney, PM [1 ]
机构
[1] Indiana Univ Purdue Univ, Dept Econ, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA
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10.1023/A:1018704712802
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This paper employs Tobit to estimate retention probabilities and credit hours at two universities. The innovation is that this technique examines credit-hour choice with the decision to depart the university treated as the choice of zero credit hours. Tobit is appropriate for this problem because it recognizes the tower bound of zero on credit hours and incorporates this bound into the parameter estimates and forecasts. Models are estimated for credit hours in a single year and cumulative hours over a six-year horizon.
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页码:613 / 632
页数:20
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