A Hybrid Pairwise Likelihood Method
一种混合成对似然方法
A modification to the pairwise likelihood method is proposed, which aims to improve the estimation of the marginal distribution parameters. This is achieved by replacing the pairwise likelihood score equations, for estimating such parameters, by the optimal linear combinations of the marginal score functions. A further advantage of the proposed estimator of marginal parameters, over pairwise likelihood, is that it is robust to misspecification of the bivariate distributions…