Non- and semiparametric statistics: Compared and contrasted

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-228

  Bickel, P J ^a   Ritov, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

62G20; 62G30; 62G35; Bootstrap; Nonparametric statistics; Plug in; Primary 62G07; Robustness; Secondary 62G09; Semiparametric statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042916298     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(00)00179-8     Document Type: Article

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