The book provides a simple intuitive introduction to regression models for qualitative and
discrete dependent variables to sample selection models and to event history models all in
the context of maximum likelihood estimation. It presents a wide range of commonly used models.
The book thereby enables the reader to become a critical consumer of current empirical social
science research and to conduct own empirical analyses. The book includes numerous examples
illustrations and exercises. It can be used as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate a
Master`s or a first-year Ph.D. course in microdata analysis and as a reference for
practitioners and researchers.
