Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Thompson, Mary E."

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Contraband Cigarette Purchasing from First Nation reserves in Ontario and Quebec: Findings from the 2002–2014 ITC Canada Survey

Driezen, Pete; Guindon, G. Emmanuel; Hammond, David; Thompson, Mary E.; Quah, Anne C.K.; Fong, Geoffrey T. (Elsevier, 2020-01)

Backround: The availability of contraband cigarettes provides incentives for price-sensitive smokers to reduce their monetary costs of smoking. The objectives of this study were to examine whether Canadian smokers’ geographic ...
Recognizing Structural Nonidentifiability: When Experiments Do Not Provide Information About Important Parameters and Misleading Models Can Still Have Great Fit

Schmidt, Philip J.; Emelko, Monica B.; Thompson, Mary E. (Wiley, 2020-02)

In the quest to model various phenomena, the foundational importance of parameter identifiability to sound statistical modeling may be less well appreciated than goodness of fit. Identifiability concerns the quality of ...