Sieve empirical likelihood ratio tests for nonparametric functions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1858-1907

  Fan, Jianqing ^a,c   Zhang, Jian ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional estimating equations; Nonparametric test; Sieve empirical likelihood; Varying coefficient models; Wilks' theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344436405     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000210     Document Type: Article

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