The robustness of the quasilikelihood estimator

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-327

  Lee, Y ^a   Nelder, John A ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalized linear model; Maximum likelihood; Quadratic estimating functions; Quasilikelihood; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033442793     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315642     Document Type: Article

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