Bias corrected estimates in multivariate student t regression models

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 797-822

  Vasconcellos, Klaus L P ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a  

^a MASTERS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Log likelihood derivatives; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multivariate nonlinear regression; Multivariate student t distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844575611     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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