How to combine M-estimators to estimate quantiles and a score function

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-294

  Kozek, Andrzej S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymptotic properties; Kernel estimators; M estimators; Quantiles; Score function; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944478995     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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