Bootstrap consistency for general semiparametric M-estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2884-2915

  Cheng, Guang ^a   Huang, Jianhua Z ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap confidence set; Bootstrap consistency; M estimation; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957551218     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS809     Document Type: Article

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