Bounded-influence robust estimation in generalized linear latent variable models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 474, 2006, Pages 644-653

  Moustaki, Irini ^a   Victoria Feser, Maria Pia ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Indirect inference; Influence function; Latent variable models; Mixed variables; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745673449     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000001320     Document Type: Review

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