Nearly universal consistency of maximum likelihood in discrete models

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2013.03.025zbMath1400.62070MaRDI QIDQ383937

Bruce G. Lindsay, Byungtae Seo

Publication date: 6 December 2013

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2013.03.025

zbMATH Keywords

inconsistent MLE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62A01: Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics

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