A formula to improve score test statistics

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 123-136

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Ferrari, Silvia L P ^b   Cysneiros, Audrey Helen M A ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Bartlett correction; Bartlett type correction; Chi squared distribution; Monotone transformation; Score test statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032279066     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811928     Document Type: Article

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