The weighted likelihood

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 347-371

  Feifang, H U ^a   Zidek, James V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entropy maximization principle; Function estimation; Information; James Stein estimation; Kernel; Likelihood; Maximum likelihood; Nonparametric regression; Normal mean estimation; Relevance; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036763177     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316141     Document Type: Article

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