Improved estimators for a general class of beta regression models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 348-366

  Simas, Alexandre B ^a   Barreto Souza, Wagner ^b   Rocha, Andréa V ^b  

^a IMPA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; NON-LINEAR MODEL; PRECISION PARAMETER; REGRESSION MODEL; SECOND ORDERS; UNIT INTERVALS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350757641     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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