Weighted likelihood equations with bootstrap root search

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 740-750

  Markatou, Marianthi ^a   Basu, Ayanendranath ^b   Lindsay, Bruce G ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic efficiency; Density estimation; Influence function; Maximum likelihood; Residual adjustment function; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032381821     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473726     Document Type: Article

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