Likelihood-based inference with singular information matrix

Bernoulli

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-284

  Rotnitzky, Andrea ^a   Cox, David R ^a   Bottai, Matteo ^a   Robins, James ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint estimation; Identifiability; Likelihood ratio test; Non ignorable non response; Rate of convergence; Reparametrization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141899476     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318576     Document Type: Article

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