Asymptotic number of roots of Cauchy location likelihood equations

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176349554zbMath0576.62027OpenAlexW2078757904MaRDI QIDQ1064690

James A. Reeds

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349554

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionfluctuation inequalitynumber of local maxima of the Cauchy location likelihood function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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