On the existence and uniqueness of the NPMLE in biased sampling models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 176-183

  Davidov, Ori ^a   Iliopoulos, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biased sampling; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Semi parametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149085233     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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