Asymptotics when the number of parameters tends to infinity in the Bradley-Terry model for paired comparisons

DOI10.1214/aos/1018031267zbMath0951.62061MaRDI QIDQ1568310

Yi-Ching Yao, Gordon Simons

Publication date: 3 January 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1018031267

zbMATH Keywords

consistency; central limit theorem; maximum likelihood estimator; Fisher information matrix; Bradley-Terry model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

62J15: Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing

Related Items

MM algorithms for generalized Bradley-Terry models., A 2-dimensional extension of the Bradley--Terry model for paired comparisons

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