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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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and 000 ( ∗∗ ) is (1). Thus<br />

2∆ = n √ <br />

³ˆ − 0´o 2<br />

{ (0 )+ (1)}<br />

= 2 + (1)<br />

• Rao Scores Test. Recall from the proof of asymptotic<br />

normality of the MLE that an expansion of<br />

0= 0 <br />

³ˆ ´<br />

around 0 resulted <strong>in</strong><br />

so that<br />

√ <br />

³ˆ − 0´<br />

=<br />

0 ( 0 ) √ <br />

( 0 )<br />

+ (1)<br />

<br />

<br />

= 0 ( 0 )<br />

q ( 0 ) = + (1)<br />

and reject<strong>in</strong>g for | | 2 is asymptotically<br />

equivalent to Wald’s test.

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