Choosing a robustness tuning parameter

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 581-588

  Warwick, J ^a   Jones, M C ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic mean squared error; L2 distance estimation; Minimum distance estimation; Pilot estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844449451     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650412331299120     Document Type: Article

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