On confidence intervals associated with the usual and adjusted likelihoods

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 945-953

  Mukerjee, Rahul ^a   Reid, N ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bartlett correction; Expected length; Highest posterior density region; Likelihood ratio statistic; Parameter orthogonality; Point estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475157     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00212     Document Type: Article

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