Latent variables in econometrics
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Unobservable variables in econometrics are represented in one of three ways: by variables contaminated by measurement errors, by proxy variables, or by various manifest indicators and/or causes. This paper contains a discussion of models involving each of these representations, and highlights certain interesting implications that have been ‘insufficiently emphasized or completely unrecognized in the literature.
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