Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference: With Examples in R, SAS and ADMB

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference: With Examples in R, SAS and ADMB

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-357

  Millar, Russell B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; STATE SPACE METHODS; STUDENTS;

CONDITIONAL LIKELIHOOD; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; INTEGRATED LIKELIHOOD; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATE - SPACE MODELS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84947556576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470094846     Document Type: Book

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