A penalty function approach to smoothing large sparse contingency tables

DOI10.1214/aos/1176346071zbMath0527.62043OpenAlexW1978738285MaRDI QIDQ595296

Jeffrey S. Simonoff

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346071

zbMATH Keywords

consistent estimatesmaximum penalized likelihoodestimation of cell probabilitieslarge sparse contingency tablesroughness penalty functionsmoothing of probability estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Contingency tables (62H17)

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