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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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184<br />

it suffices (Slutsky!) to establish:<br />

(i)<br />

0 ( 0 ) √ → (0( 0 )) <br />

(ii) − 00 ( 0 )<br />

<br />

<br />

→ ( 0 ) 0<br />

Proofof(i): 0 ( 0 ) √ = 1 √ <br />

P <br />

log ( ) |=0 ,<br />

a normalized sum of i.i.d. r.v.s with mean 0 and<br />

variance ( 0 ).<br />

Proofof(ii):<br />

− 00 ( 0 )<br />

<br />

= 1 <br />

X Ã !<br />

− 2<br />

2 log ( )<br />

"<br />

<br />

→ 0 − 2<br />

2 log ()<br />

#<br />

| 0<br />

= ( 0 ) <br />

• There may be multiple roots of the likelihood<br />

equation, <strong>in</strong> which case the theory so far does<br />

not tell us which one to choose. This can be dealt<br />

with as follows. Assume that we have some estimator<br />

˜ which is √ -consistent, i.e. √ ³˜ − 0´<br />

is (1). This holds <strong>in</strong> particular if √ ³˜ − 0´

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