On the robustness of empirical likelihood ratio confidence intervals for location

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 129-140

  Tsao, Min ^a   Zhou, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Confidence interval; Empirical likelihood; Huber's location m estimate; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035632750     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316056     Document Type: Article

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