cross-entropy

Reduced-bias estimation of spatial autoregressive models with incompletely geocoded data

This contribution aims at developing a strategy to reduce the bias and produce more reliable inference for spatial models with location errors. The proposed estimation strategy models both the spatial stochastic process and the coarsening mechanism by means of a marked point process.

A Cross-Entropy Approach to the Estimation of Generalized Linear Multilevel Models

In this article, we use the cross-entropy method for noisy optimization for fitting generalized linear multilevel models through maximum likelihood.