The likelihood ratio approximation to the conditional distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator in the discrete case

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 939-945

  Severini, Thomas A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancillary statistic; Asymptotic theory; Lattice distribution; Likelihood; Maximum likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646702261     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.4.939     Document Type: Article

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