On the Generalization of the Likelihood Function and the Likelihood Principle

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 791-806

  Bjørnstad, Jan F ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conditionality principle; Likelihood prediction; Partial likelihood; Sufficiency principle; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030546468     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476947     Document Type: Article

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