Robustness aspects of model choice

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-338

  Ronchetti, Elvezio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Akaike criterion; Autoregressive models; Competing models; Crossvalidation; Diagnostics; Information theory; M estimators; Mallows's C P; Non nested hypotheses; Outliers; Robust Akaike criterion; Robust C P; Robust regression; Robust tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031485477     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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