Joint composite estimating functions in spatiotemporal models

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

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 799-824

  Bai, Yun ^a   Song, Peter X K ^a   Raghunathan, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Correlated data; Dimension reduction; Generalized method of moments; Quadratic inference function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867631701     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2012.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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