Approximate median regression via the box-cox transformation

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-238

  Fitzmaurice, Garrett M ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Parzen, Michael ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Least absolute deviations; Maximum likelihood; Median regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548584980     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X220534     Document Type: Article

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