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A robust approach to dealing with zero expenditures on mobile communications

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Conventional parametric approach to dealing with zero expenditures is not robust to heteroscedastic and/or non-normal error structure. This paper applies symmetrically censored least squares estimation as a robust approach to dealing with zero expenditures on mobile communications in Seoul, Korea. The result of specification test indicates the robust approach outperforms the parametric approach significantly.

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  • Seung-Hoon Yoo, 2003. "A robust approach to dealing with zero expenditures on mobile communications," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(12), pages 757-760.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:10:y:2003:i:12:p:757-760
    DOI: 10.1080/1350485032000138962
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