Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the endpoint of a distribution function

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Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 353-366

  Li, Deyuan ^a   Peng, Liang ^b   Qi, Yongcheng ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Empirical likelihood method; Endpoint

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052674743     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-010-0204-4     Document Type: Article

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