Rendering parametric procedures more robust by empirically tilting the model

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 453-465

  Choi, Edwin ^a   Hall, Peter ^a   Presnell, Brett ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Breakdown properties; Exponential family; Hellinger distance; Influence curve; Kullback Leibler distance; Power divergence; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347609108     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.2.453     Document Type: Article

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