Analytic bias correction for maximum likelihood estimators when the bias function is non-constant
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0361-0918,1532-4141
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2017.1371749