Bias correction for a class of multivariate nonlinear regression models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-164

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Vasconcellos, Klaus L P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Covariance matrix; Information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimate; Multivariate linear model; Nonlinear regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591865     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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