The Elimination of Nuisance Parameters

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-219

  Liseo, Brunero ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

binary matched pairs; conditional likelihood; integrated likelihood; Jeffreys' prior; Kullback Leibler divergence; marginal likelihood; modified profile likelihood; Neyman Scott problem; nonparametric likelihood; profile likelihood; reference priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847218383     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(05)25007-1     Document Type: Review

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