Properties of robust M-estimators for poisson and negative binomial data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 273-288

  Cadigan, N G ^a   Chen, J ^b  

^a Fisheries and Oceans   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bounded influence M estimation; Model mis specification; Small sample efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035605697     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650108812122     Document Type: Article

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