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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2009 O O2 ii Solution by
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For a fixed true parameter , the usual asymptotic normality of maximum likelihood estimators givesEquivalently, for a large sample, is approximately normally distributed with mean and variance . Replacing the unknown variance by its consistent plug-in estimate gives the Wald confidence intervalHere is a standard-normal quantile. Intersect with the physical parameter range if needed. This is an interior, large-sample approximation; the degenerate estimate from does not justify a zero-width finite-sample interval.
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