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Likelihood Principle

The Likelihood Principle is a foundational tenet in statistical inference asserting that all evidence about a parameter contained in a sample is fully captured by the likelihood function, which specifies that any two sets of data yielding proportional likelihood functions provide identical information for inference about the parameter.

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A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk

Jason P. Fine · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1999 · 13.6K citations

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Information theory as an extension of the maximum likelihood principle

H. Akaike · International Symposium on Information Theory · 1973 · 2.4K citations

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ON THE LIKELIHOOD THAT ONE UNKNOWN PROBABILITY EXCEEDS ANOTHER IN VIEW OF THE EVIDENCE OF TWO SAMPLES

W. R THOMPSON · Biometrika · 1933 · 2.4K citations

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Bayesian statistical inference for psychological research.

Ward Edwards, Harold R. Lindman, Leonard J. Savage · Psychological Review · 1963 · 1.8K citations

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A Universal Prior for Integers and Estimation by Minimum Description Length

J. Rissanen · The Annals of Statistics · 1983 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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  1. AB
    Allan Birnbaum

    New York University, United States

    5 publications · 778 citations

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  2. FD
    Feng Ding

    Jiangnan University, China

    3 publications · 64 citations

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  3. RM
    Richard M. Royall

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    3 publications · 1K citations

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  4. AE
    Alexander Etz

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    2 publications · 82 citations

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  5. PW
    Peter Walley

    Universidad de Granada, Spain

    2 publications · 64 citations

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  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    15.2K citations

  2. Qingdao University of Science and Technology

    Qingdao, China

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    325 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    5.5K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    1.8K citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    2.6K citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    735 citations

  8. FH Aachen

    Aachen, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    334 citations

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  1. Journal of the American Statistical Association

    19 publications · 17K citations

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  2. The American Statistician

    10 publications · 688 citations

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  3. Biometrika

    5 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics

    4 publications · 421 citations

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  5. The Annals of Statistics

    4 publications · 1.9K citations

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