Robust-efficient fitting of mixed linear models: Methodology and theory

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1422-1435

  Dornheim, Harald ^a   Brazauskas, Vytaras ^b  

^a Beijing PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Efficiency; Outlier detection; Robustness; Truncated likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650228346     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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