Indirect inference and variance reduction using control variates

Metron

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 39-53

  Calzolari, Giorgio ^a   Di Iorio, Francesca ^b   Fiorentini, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Control Variates; Indirect Inference; Variance reduction techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442470322     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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