User-friendly parallel computations with econometric examples

Computational Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-128

  Creel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; GMM; Kernel regression; Maximum likelihood; Monte Carlo; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744468173     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-005-6868-2     Document Type: Article

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