Minimum negative exponential disparity estimation of mixture proportions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-197

  McCann, Melinda ^a   Sarkar, Sahadeb ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Advanced College of Management   (India)

Author keywords

62F10; 62F35; Hellinger distance; Minimum disparity estimation; Relative efficiency; Robustness; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042916396     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00189-5     Document Type: Article

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