Decoding the H-likelihood

Statistical Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 280-293

  Meng, Xiao Li ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancillary statistics; Bartlett identities; Fisher information; Hessian information; Likelihood principle; Missing data; Pivotal predictive distribution; Posterior predictive distribution; Prediction; Random effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955133642     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-STS277C     Document Type: Article

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