Efficient statistical inference procedures for partially nonlinear models and their applications

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 904-911

  Li, Runze ^a   Nie, Lei ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Local linear regression; Partial linear models; Profile least squares; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; LEAST SQUARE; LOCAL LINEAR REGRESSION; NON-LINEAR MODELLING; NONPARAMETRICS; PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS; PARTIAL LINEAR MODELS; PROFILE LEAST SQUARE; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

ECOLOGY;

DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 49749145935     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00937.x     Document Type: Article

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