Who invented the delta method?

American Statistician

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-127

  Ver Hoef, Jay M ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate variance; Bias correction; Limiting distribution; Taylor expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865146630     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2012.687494     Document Type: Review

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