Analytical and bootstrap approximations to estimator distributions in L1 regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 88, Issue 424, 1993, Pages 1310-1316

  Angelis, D De ^a,b   Hall, Peter ^c,d   Young, G A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO MATHEMATICAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimator; Edgeworth expansion; L1 regression; Normal approximation; Smoothed bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344477138     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1993.10476412     Document Type: Article

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