Fixed-width confidence interval based on a minimum Hellinger distance estimator

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4276-4292

  Lee, Sangyeol ^a   Sriram, T N ^b   Wei, Xinyu ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic consistency; Asymptotic efficiency; Fisher information; Fixed width confidence interval; Maximum likelihood estimator; Minimum Hellinger distance estimator; Stopping rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746792367     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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