Parametric estimation and tests through divergences and the duality technique

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-36

  Broniatowski, Michel ^a   Keziou, Amor ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

symbol divergence; 62F03; 62F10; 62F30; Boundary valued parameter; Duality; Maximum likelihood; Mixture; Parametric estimation; Parametric test; Power function

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049131411     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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