Reducing bias for maximum approximate conditional likelihood estimator with general missing data mechanism
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1048-5252,1029-0311
DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2017.1339306