On the quality of likelihood-based estimators in spatial autoregressive models when the data dependence structure is misspecified

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 153-174

  Griffith, Daniel A ^a   Lagona, Francesco ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Graph theory; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixing; Spatial autoregression; Specification error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032092907     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(97)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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