Canadian Journal of Statistics · 1984 · 25 citations · 5 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsEconometricsProbability TheoryStatisticsHypothesis TestingInferential StatisticsLikelihood EstimationLikelihood FunctionsMaximum Likelihood EstimationStatistical InferenceAsymptotic Distribution TheoryAsymptotic NormalityLikelihood AsymptoticsLikelihood RatiosLikelihood Theory
Abstract Under weak conditions the normalized likelihood with or without weight function almost surely converges to a normal density function: for a real parameter or a vector parameter; with or without the assumption of independent identical distributions. Applications arise for confidence intervals, confidence distributions, structural distributions. and conditional analyses with transformation and structural models.
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