The interpretation of maximum-likelihood estimation

DOI10.2307/3314722zbMath0542.62019OpenAlexW2019724159MaRDI QIDQ3330299

Román Viveros-Aguilera, David A. Sprott

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3314722

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationinformationvariancebiaslinearityconditional inferenceancillary statisticsapproximately linearapproximately pivotal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10)

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