Simple counterexamples against the conditionality principle

American Statistician

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 351-356

  Helland, Inge S ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ancillarity; Conditional or unconditional model; Conditionality principle; Likelihood principle; Random effects; Randomization; Sampling; Sufficiency principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844522938     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1995.10476181     Document Type: Article

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