Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for differences between two datasets with missing data

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 803-812

  Qin, Yongsong ^a   Zhang, Shichao ^a  

^a GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Empirical likelihood; Imputation; Missing data

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 39949084665     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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