An empirical adjustment to the likelihood ratio statistic

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-247

  Severini, Thomas A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC interval; Conditional inference; Confidence limits; Directed likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007223315     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.235     Document Type: Article

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