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Strong Consistency in Nonlinear Regression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G.D. Richardson
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
B.B. Bhattacharyya
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University

Abstract

Sufficient conditions are given to ensure the existence of a sequence of strongly consistent estimators of an unknown parameter for a nonlinear regression model. The parameter space includes all separable metric spaces but is not assumed to be compact.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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