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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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230<br />

and so (25.2) yields<br />

ˆ = − <br />

with ³ˆ´ =log ³ <br />

<br />

´<br />

and<br />

00 ³ˆ´ = ³ − ˆ´−2<br />

=()<br />

2 <br />

The saddlepo<strong>in</strong>t approximation is thus<br />

n<br />

´o<br />

Saddlepo<strong>in</strong>t<br />

<br />

() = −ˆ+³ˆ<br />

³ˆ´<br />

r200 = −(−) ³ <br />

<br />

´<br />

<br />

= exact<br />

<br />

√<br />

2<br />

( − 1)!<br />

() · √ <br />

2<br />

−1 2<br />

The saddlepo<strong>in</strong>t approximation gives the exact<br />

answer, apart from Stirl<strong>in</strong>g’s approximation of ( − 1)!:<br />

( − 1)! <br />

√ =1+ ³ −1´<br />

<br />

2<br />

−1 2<br />

Even this error would vanish if Saddlepo<strong>in</strong>t<br />

<br />

(·)were<br />

normalized to have an <strong>in</strong>tegral of 1.

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