A Time Series Illustration of Approximate Conditional Likelihood
近似条件似然的一个时间序列例证
We consider the calculation of confidence intervals for the correlation parameter, based on observations of a large number of short Gaussian first-order autoregressive processes with different means but common correlation and variance. Ordinary profile likelihood gives very misleading answers. The approximate conditional likelihood of Cox & Reid (1987) is calculated and shown to lead to consistent estimation of the correlation. Simulations verify that the usual asymptotic…