On the consistency of rank transformed regression

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2159-2168

  Lee, Chu In Charles ^a   Yan, Xiaosong ^a   Shi, Ning Zhong ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Isotonic regression; Least squares; Linear interpolation; MSE consistency; Rank transformation; Spearman's rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042466723     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831828     Document Type: Article

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