Normal/independent distributions and their applications in robust regression

K Lange, JS Sinsheimer - Journal of Computational and Graphical …, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Maximum likelihood estimation with nonnormal error distributions provides one method of
robust regression. Certain families of normal/independent distributions are particularly …

Acceleration techniques in fixed-point methods for finding percentage points

D Böhning - Statistics and Computing, 1993 - Springer
This contribution discusses various acceleration techniques of fixed-point methods for
iteratively finding percentage points of a given distribution function. Recently, Farnum (1991) …

11 Construction of reliable maximum likelihood algorithms with application to logistic and cox regression

D Böhning - 1993 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the construction of reliable maximum likelihood
algorithms, with application to logistic and Cox regression. It discusses iterative procedures …