Testing statistical hypotheses based on the density power divergence

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 319-348

  Basu, A ^a   Mandal, A ^a   Martin, N ^b   Pardo, L ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Density power divergence; Linear combination of Chi squares; Robustness; Tests of hypotheses

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE STATISTICS; DENSITY ESTIMATES; DENSITY POWER; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; ROBUST PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS; TESTS OF HYPOTHESES;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL TESTS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84872282452     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-012-0372-y     Document Type: Article

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