Efficient mean estimation in log-normal linear models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 552-567

  Shen, Haipeng ^a   Zhu, Zhengyuan ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Mean squared error; Parametric bootstrap; Sediment discharge; Uniformly minimum variance unbiased

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048933691     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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