Testing the Fit of a Parametric Function

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 447, 1999, Pages 869-879

  Aerts, Marc ^a   Claeskens, Gerda ^a   Hart, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Likelihood; Misspecification; Nonparametric series regression; Robust score statistics; Score statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542427814     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10474192     Document Type: Article

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