Explaining the saddlepoint approximation

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 216-224

  Goutis, Constantino ^a   Casella, George ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Edgeworth expansions; Fourier transform; Laplace method; Maximum likelihood estimators; Moment generating functions; Taylor series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033409355     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474463     Document Type: Article

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