Maximum likelihood estimation using the empirical fisher information matrix

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 599-611

  Scott, William Andrew ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Incomplete data; Information matrix; Response models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036374022     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650213744     Document Type: Article

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