Journal Article

Beyond Logit and Probit: Cox Duration Models of Single, Repeating, and Competing Events for State Policy Adoption

Jones, Bradford S., Branton, Regina P.

2005

Overview

Since 1990, the standard statistical approach for studying state policy adoption has been an event history analysis using binary link models, such as logit or probit. In this article, we evaluate this logit-probit approach and consider some alternative strategies for state policy adoption research. In particular, we discuss the Cox model, which avoids the need to parameterize the baseline hazard function and, therefore, is often preferable to the logit-probit approach. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the Cox model can be modified to deal effectively with repeatable and competing events, events that the logit-probit approach cannot be used to model.

• Publisher: Institute for Legislative Studies, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and the University of Illinois Press,SAGE Publications,Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Constitutional rights / Data analysis / Datasets / Decision making models / Event History Analysis / Hazard Rate Models / Methodological Problems / Model testing / Modeling / Obscenity / Parametric models / Permissiveness / Policy analysis / Policy Making / Policy Research / Policy studies / Political science / Political sociology / Quarterly estimates / Regulatory legislation / Semiparametric modeling / State laws / State politics / State-society relations / The Practical Researcher