Likelihood asymptotics

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-32

  Skovgaard, Ib M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conditional inference; Large deviation expansions; Modified log likelihood ratio test; Nusiance parameters; Parametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529540     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00223     Document Type: Review

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