Estimating equations inference with missing data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 483, 2008, Pages 1187-1199

  Zhou, Yong ^a,b   Wan, Alan T K ^c   Wang, Xiaojing ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Estimating equations; Generalized method of moments; Kernel regression; Missing at random; Reduced dimension

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949085047     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000535     Document Type: Article

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