Corrected likelihood ratio tests in symmetric nonlinear regression models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 609-620

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Bartlett correction; Chi squared distribution; Likelihood ratio test; Symmetric model; T model

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042541733     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650310001638591     Document Type: Article

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