Likelihood inference in exponential families and directions of recession

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 259-289

  Geyer, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barndorff Nielsen completion; Existence of maximum likelihood estimate; Exponential family

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650377025     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS349     Document Type: Article

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