Some statistical heresies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-26

  Lindsey, J K ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Akaike's information criterion; Asymptotics; Compatibility; Consistency; Discrete data; Hypothesis test; Likelihood; Likelihood principle; Model selection; Nonparametric models; Normal distribution; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001908306     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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