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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ii Paper 2 27I i Solution by
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The likelihood-ratio statistic for nested parameter spaces isUnder the null, Wilks theorem gives when the full model and null submodel are smooth and identifiable, the true parameter is an interior regular point, Fisher information is nonsingular in the identifiable directions, and the usual differentiability and likelihood-asymptotic conditions hold. A level- test rejects for exceeding the upper quantile of that chi-square law. The approximation is for large samples; boundary parameters, singularities or nonidentifiability can give a different limiting distribution.
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