Accounting for uncertainty in heteroscedasticity in nonlinear regression

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1047-1062

  Lim, Changwon ^a   Sen, Pranab K ^b,c   Peddada, Shyamal D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Dose response study; Heteroscedasticity; Hill model; M estimation procedure; Preliminary test estimation; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856021736     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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