Adjusting composite likelihood ratio statistics

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-148

  Pace, Luigi ^a,b   Salvan, Alessandra ^a,b   Sartori, Nicola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equicorrelated multivariate normal distribution; First order autoregression; Godambe information; Pairwise likelihood; Pseudolikelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650336422     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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