Extending the scope of empirical likelihood

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1079-1111

  Hjort, Nils Lid ^a   Mckeague, Ian W ^a,b   Van Keilegom, Ingrid ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b University of Oslo ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bootstrap calibration; Current status data; Empirical processes; Estimating equations; Growing number of parameters; Nonparametric regression; Nuisance parameters; Orthogonal series; Plug in

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249101842     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS555     Document Type: Article

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