The indirect method: inference based on intermediate statistics -- a synthesis and examples

DOI10.1214/088342304000000152zbMath1100.62025OpenAlexW1970590283MaRDI QIDQ2503926

Wenxin Jiang, Bruce W. Turnbull

Publication date: 22 September 2006

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/088342304000000152

zbMATH Keywords

robustnessconsistencyasymptotic normalitymodel selectionefficiencygeneralized method of momentsoverdispersionrandom effectsmeasurement errormissing dataestimating equationsgraphical modelsquasi-likelihoodbias correctionindirect inferencenaive estimatorsindirect likelihoodomitted covariates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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Uses Software

• BLINPLUS
• relibpls8

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