Empirical likelihood tests for two-sample problems via nonparametric density estimation

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-77

  Cao, Ricardo ^a   Van Keilegom, Ingrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Bootstrap; Comparison of two populations; Empirical likelihood; Hypothesis testing; Kernel method; Local empirical likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744771927     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2006.pto_240.x     Document Type: Article

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