A two-sample empirical likelihood ratio test based on samples entropy

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 657-670

  Gurevich, Gregory ^a   Vexler, Albert ^b  

^a SAMI SHAMOON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Entropy; Likelihood ratio; Two sample nonparametric tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051472543     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9199-7     Document Type: Article

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