Timeline for Why is the deviance defined with a factor 2 (or likelihood ratio squared)?
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Ben | @Kevin C: Yes. Without the factor of two it would have a scaled cih-squared distribution (multiplied by $\tfrac{1}{2}$). | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 7:48 | vote | accept | fool | ||
| Dec 8, 2018 at 7:48 | comment | added | fool | Hi @Ben , thanks, I think I can accept that! Does the 2 contribute to the statistic following a ChiSquared distribution at all? Wilks' Theorem | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 23:37 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |