Integrated likelihood methods for eliminating nuisance parameters

Statistical Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-22

  Berger, James O ^a   Liseo, Brunero ^b   Wolpert, Robert L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marginal likelihood; Nuisance parameters; Profile likelihood; Reference priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002464001     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009211804     Document Type: Article

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