A minimax approach to consistency and efficiency for estimating equations

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1283-1297

  Li, Bing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doob Wald approach to consistency; Estimating equations; Quasi likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030487957     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032526969     Document Type: Article

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