Fisher information matrix of the dirichlet-multinomial distribution

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 230-236

  Paul, Sudhir R ^a   Balasooriya, Uditha ^b   Banerjee, Tathagata ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Approximate Fisher information matrix; Beta binomial distribution; Dirichlet multinomial distribution; Exact Fisher information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimates; Standard errors

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

APPROXIMATE FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; BETA-BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRICHLET; DIRICHLET-MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; EXACT FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FISHER INFORMATION MATRICES; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MULTINOMIALS; STANDARD ERRORS;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

EID: 17844381053     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410103     Document Type: Article

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