On bias reduction in exponential and non-exponential family regression models

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 485-500

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Cribari Neto, Francisco ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Bias correction; Exponential family; Generalized linear models; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non exponential family

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000551492     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813491     Document Type: Article

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