Goodness of fit via non-parametric likelihood ratios

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 487-513

  Claeskens, Gerda ^a   Hjort, Nils Lid ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

AIC; BIC; Density estimation; Goodness of fit; Log linear expansions; Non parametric likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444273225     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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