Explicit estimating equations for semiparametric generalized linear latent variable models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-495

  Ma, Yanyuan ^a   Genton, Marc G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete statistic; Estimation efficiency; Latent variable; Maximum likelihood estimator; Quadrature points; Robustness; Score function; Sufficient statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650356258     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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