Calculating significance levels when lod scores are maximized over nuisance parameters

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1477-1485

  Rabinowitz, Daniel ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary crossing probability; Likelihood ratio; Linkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342473314     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832171     Document Type: Article

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