Confidence distributions from likelihoods by median bias correction

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2017.09.010zbMATH Open1383.62071arXiv1607.05136OpenAlexW2963179084MaRDI QIDQ1698992FDOQ1698992

Authors: Pierpaolo De Blasi, T. Schweder 

Publication date: 16 February 2018

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By the modified directed likelihood, higher order accurate confidence limits for a scalar parameter are obtained from the likelihood. They are conveniently described in terms of a confidence distribution, that is a sample dependent distribution function on the parameter space. In this paper we explore a different route to accurate confidence limits via tail-symmetric confidence curves, that is curves that describe equal tailed intervals at any level. Instead of modifying the directed likelihood, we consider inversion of the log-likelihood ratio when evaluated at the median of the maximum likelihood estimator. This is shown to provide equal tailed intervals, and thus an exact confidence distribution, to the third-order of approximation in regular one-dimensional models. Median bias correction also provides an alternative approximation to the modified directed likelihood which holds up to the second order in exponential families.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05136

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionexponential familyconfidence distributionmodified directed likelihoodconfidence curvenormal transformation family

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

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