Issues and strategies in the selection of composite likelihoods

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-105

  Lindsay, Bruce G ^a   Yi, Grace Y ^b   Sun, Jianping ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estimating functions; Fisher consistency; Hoeffding scores; Inference functions; Information unbiased; Likelihood functions; Linear combinations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650413711     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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