This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Suppose that inference about parameters of interest is to be based on an unbiased estimating function that is U-statistic of degree 1 or 2. We ...

Maximum likelihood estimation with nonnormal error distributions provides one method of robust regression. Certain families of normal/independent distributions are ...

This short course is intended to provide basic knowledge to graduate students outside the field of statistics to intimate them with the methods and approaches of the classical regression model. Topics ...