An estimation method for the Neyman chi-square divergence with application to test of hypotheses

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1409-1436

  Broniatowski, M ^a   Leorato, S ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chi square divergence; Contamination models; Empirical likelihood; Fenchel Legendre transform; Hypothesis testing; Linear constraints; Marginal distributions; Outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646495083     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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