Asymptotic distribution and robustness of minimum total variation distance estimators

Metron

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-80

  Bassetti, Federico ^a   Regazzini, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Argmax theorem; Asymptotic distribution; Divergences; Influence function; Minimum total variation estimators; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247130432     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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