The second-order bias and mean squared error of nonlinear estimators

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 369-395

  Rilstone, Paul ^a   Srivastava, V K ^b   Ullah, Aman ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher order moments; Stochastic expansions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347568354     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4076(96)89457-7     Document Type: Article

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