A robust test for non-nested hypotheses

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 715-727

  Victoria Feser, Maria Pia ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Linear Regression; M Estimators; Model Choice; Pareto Distribution; Robust Tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001340995     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00093     Document Type: Article

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