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I was being facetious: the probability that a continuous RV takes on a
particular value on the real line is zero. If you're going to muddy
the waters with real data, though, recorded to finite precision (such
as integers), that concept has little meaning.
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
On Feb 12, 2009, at 02:33 , Howard wrote:
The censoring means that p(X_i=0) is not zero. I guess it's also
true that my variables are not strictly continuous in that they're
rounded to the nearest integer.
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