Asymptotic Expansions for Confidence Limits in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters, with Applications
存在干扰参数时置信限的渐近展开及应用
SUMMARY Series expansions for confidence limits based on consistent estimators are obtained in the presence of nuisance parameters. The maximum likelihood estimator is treated as a special case and the necessary characteristics of its sampling distribution are obtained in terms of basic quantities derivable from the likelihood function. The theory is applied to the problem of setting separate confidence limits for the scale and shape parameters of the Weibull distribution.…