Empirical likelihood as a goodness-of-fit measure

Biometrika

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 535-547

  Baggerly, Keith A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartlett correction; Cressie read statistic; Empirical likelihood; Goodness of fit test; Maximum entropy; Nonparametric confidence region

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000454389     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/85.3.535     Document Type: Article

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