Consistency of minimum divergence estimators based on grouped data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 937-941

  Bassetti, Federico ^a   Bodini, Antonella ^b   Regazzini, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consistency of point estimators; Minimum divergence estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247157768     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.11.021     Document Type: Article

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