Bias reduction using stochastic approximation

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-52

  Leung, Denis Heng Yan ^a   Wang, You Gan ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Bootstrapping; Jackknife; Length biased data; Robbins monro procedure; Sequential analysis; Stochastic approximation; Stopping time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002105396     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00005     Document Type: Article

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