Minimum negative exponential disparity estimation in parametric models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 349-370

  Basu, Ayanendranath ^a   Sarkar, Sahadeb ^b   Vidyashankar, A N ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATcomp Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic efficiency; Hellinger distance; Inliers; Maximum likelihood estimator; Minimum disparity estimation; Outliers; Residual adjustment function; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031498180     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00078-x     Document Type: Article

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