Regression Analysis, Nonlinear or Nonnormal: Simple and Accurate p Values from Likelihood Analysis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1286-1294

  Fraser, D A S ^a   Wong, Augustine ^b   Wu, Jianrong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Likelihood analysis; Nonlinear; Nonnormal; P value; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325078     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473881     Document Type: Article

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