Stochastic Inequalities Relating a Class of Log-Likelihood Ratio Statistics to their Asymptotic $\chi^2$ Distribution
一类对数似然比统计量与其渐近卡方分布之间的随机不等式
For decomposable covariance selection models, stochastic inequalities which relate the null distribution of the log-likelihood ratio statistic to its asymptotic $\chi^2$ distribution are obtained. The implications are twofold: First, the null distribution of the log-likelihood ratio statistic is seen to be stochastically larger than its asymptotic $\chi^2$ distribution. Extremely large samples apart, for the $\chi^2$ approximation to be valid, a deflation of the…