Block empirical likelihood for longitudinal partially linear regression models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-96

  You, Jinhong ^a   Chen, Gemai ^b   Zhou, Yong ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

Block empirical likelihood; Confidence region; Longitudinal data; Partially linear regression model; Semiparametric inference; Wilks theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744770622     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550340107     Document Type: Article

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