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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2012 O O1 b Solution by
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Let for the standard normal cumulative distribution function. Consistency of the maximum-likelihood estimator and Slutsky's theorem give the asymptotic standardizationIts probability of lying between and tends to . Solving those inequalities for the unknown parameter yields the Wald confidence intervalThus the estimated standard error is . Its coverage is approximate and relies on the large-sample regularity assumptions.
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