Understanding and Addressing the Unbounded “Likelihood” Problem

DOI10.1080/00031305.2014.1003968MaRDI QIDQ5885379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Huaiqing Wu, William Q. Meeker

Publication date 3 April 2023

Published in The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2014.1003968

zbMATH Keywords

density approximationinterval censoringmaximum likelihoodround-off errorunbounded likelihood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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