General Saddlepoint Approximations of Marginal Densities and Tail Probabilities

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 666-673

  Gatto, Riccardo ^a   Ronchetti, Elvezio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Logit model; M estimator; Marginal distribution; Probit model; Rank estimator; U statistic; von Mises expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030551134     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476935     Document Type: Article

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