Kurtosis and curvature measures for nonlinear regression models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 547-570

  Haines, L M ^a   O'Brien, T E ^b   Clarke, G P Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Confidence intervals; Parameter effects curvature; Relative overlap; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142693974     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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