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General saddlepoint approximations of marginal densities and tail probabilities

  • Gatto, Riccardo Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA
  • Ronchetti, Elvezio Istituto di finanza (IFin), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
    1995
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  • Journal of the American statistical association. - American statistical association. - 1996, vol. 91, no. 434, p. 666-673
English Saddlepoint approximations of marginal densities and tail probabilities of general nonlinear statistics are derived. They are based on the expansion of the statistic up to the second order. Their accuracy is shown in a variety of examples, including logit and probit models and rank estimators for regression.
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