Balanced confidence regions based on Tukey's depth and the bootstrap

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

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 639-652

  Yeh, Arthur B ^a   Singh, Kesar ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced Confidence Region; Bootstrap; Second Order Balancedness; Tukey's Depth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001565840     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00088     Document Type: Article

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