Mean loglikelihood and higher-order approximations

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-170

  Reid, N ^a   Fraser, D A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximate pivot; Approximation; Fraser information; Kullback Leibler distance; P; Tangent exponential model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249149931     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq001     Document Type: Article

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