Empirical transform estimation for indexed stochastic models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-141

  Yao, Qiwei ^a   Morgan, Byron J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagonal optimization; Empirical transform; Growth model; Indexed stochastic model; Laplace transform; Least squares estimator; Mean squared errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474906     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00167     Document Type: Article

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