Maximum likelihood and decision theory

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176345778zbMath0494.62004OpenAlexW2050947563MaRDI QIDQ1169209

Efron, Bradley

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345778

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationFisher informationStein estimationFisher information boundgeometry of maximum likelihood summarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05)

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