Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a semiparametric mixture model

Master of Science === Department of Statistics === Weixin Yao === In this report, we introduce the minimum Hellinger distance (MHD) estimation method and review its history. We examine the use of Hellinger distance to obtain a new efficient and robust estimator for a class of semiparametric mixture...

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Main Author: Xiang, Sijia
Language:en_US
Published: Kansas State University 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13762