Properties of empirical and adjusted empirical likelihoods

Likelihood based statistical inferences have been advocated by generations of statisticians. As an alternative to the traditional parametric likelihood, empirical likelihood (EL) is appealing for its nonparametric setting and desirable asymptotic properties. In this thesis, we first review and inve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yi
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27819