The use of the weighted likelihood in the natural exponential families with quadratic variance

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-157

  Ghosh, Malay ^a   Zidek, James V ^b   Maiti, Tapabrata ^c   White, Rick ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Exponential family; James Stein estimation; Likelihood; Maximum likelihood; Natural exponential family with quadratic variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142727653     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315938     Document Type: Article

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