Adjusted empirical likelihood and its properties

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 426-443

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Variyath, Asokan Mulayath ^b   Abraham, Bovas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Confidence region; Constrained maximization; Coverage probability; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849117324     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X321068     Document Type: Article

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