Some variants of minimum disparity estimation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 741-763

  Basu, Ayanendranath ^a   Park, Chanseok ^b   Lindsay, Bruce G ^c   Li, Haihong ^d  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Empty cell; Inflection point; Powered Pearson divergence; Robust likelihood disparity; Winsorized and trimmed divergences

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DISPARITY BASED INFERENCE; GRAPHICAL INVESTIGATION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 16544393276     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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