On minimum Hellinger distance estimation

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 514-533

  Wu, Jingjing ^a   Karunamuni, Rohana J ^a  

^a Department of Mathematics and Statistics ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic efficiency; Asymptotic normality; Minimum hellinger distance estimators; Robust statistics; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049136553     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10042     Document Type: Article

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