Consistent Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Groups of Transformations
相合伪极大似然估计量与变换群
In a transformation model yt=c[a(xt,β),ut], where the errors ut are i.i.d. and independent of the explanatory variables xt, the parameters can be estimated by a pseudo‐maximum likelihood (PML) method, that is, by using a misspecified distribution of the errors, but the PML estimator of β is in general not consistent. We explain in this paper how to nest the initial model in an identified augmented model with more parameters in order to derive consistent PML estimators of…