An alternative to model selection in ordinary regression

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-80

  Longford, Nicholas T ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Mean squared error; Model selection; Single model based estimator; Synthetic estimator; Two stage procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346463251     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021995912647     Document Type: Article

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