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Mathematical theory of statistics, concerned with formal definitions and general results.

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Does the likelihood ratio test violate the likelihood principle?

I've been going over Berger's famous example of negative binomial vs binomial sampling leading to two different p-values conditional on the same observed data. To summarize, suppose we observe 9 tails …
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Are there possibilities to determine 95% confidence interval for right skewed data?

Usually integer data, like days, is modeled using a Poisson (or Negative Binomial) regression model, both instances of what is called a generalized linear model (GLM). $$Y \sim Poisson(\lambda)$$ $$lo …
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Why not always use CI's from LRT since they don't require symmetry?

I'm confused on why anyone would appeal to asymptotic normality of mle, $$\hat{\theta} - \theta_0 \rightarrow^D N(0,I^{-1}(\theta))$$ When we can simply invert the likelihood ratio test $$L(\hat{\thet …
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