Weighted empirical likelihood estimates and their robustness properties

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5130-5141

  Glenn, N L ^a   Zhao, Yichuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminated normal distribution; Empirical likelihood; Weighted likelihood

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM VARIABLES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTAMINATED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD; WEIGHTED LIKELIHOOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

EID: 34247329465     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.032     Document Type: Article

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