Minimum divergence estimators based on grouped data

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 277-288

  Menendez M ^a   Morales, D ^b   Pardo, L ^c   Vajda, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Efficiency; Fisher information; Minimum divergence estimators; Optimization; Random quantization

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644224005     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012466605316     Document Type: Article

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