Bootstrap relative errors and sub-exponential distributions

Bernoulli

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 809-834

  Wood, Andrew T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Edgeworth expansion; Moderate deviations; Perccntile method; Tail probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346087522     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318757     Document Type: Article

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