Tailor-made tests for goodness of fit to semiparametric hypotheses

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 721-741

  Bickel, Peter J ^a   Ritov, Ya'acov ^b   Stoker, Thomas M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula models; Independence; Mixture of Gaussians

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746227444     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000137     Document Type: Article

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