Saddlepoint approximations of marginal densities and confidence intervals for regression r-estimators

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-253

  Gatto, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bias corrected interval; Bootstrap; Nonparametric inference; Rank estimator; Resampling; Small sample approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003192775     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485259708832702     Document Type: Article

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