Empirical likelihood-based confidence intervals for data with possible zero observations

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-37

  Chen, Song Xi ^a   Qin, Jing ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Empirical likelihood; Skewed distribution; Zero values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141867591     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(03)00216-5     Document Type: Article

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