Empirical Likelihood and General Estimating Equations
经验似然与一般估计方程
For some time, so-called empirical likelihoods have been used heuristically for purposes of nonparametric estimation. Owen showed that empirical likelihood ratio statistics for various parameters $\theta(F)$ of an unknown distribution $F$ have limiting chi-square distributions and may be used to obtain tests or confidence intervals in a way that is completely analogous to that used with parametric likelihoods. Our objective in this paper is twofold: first, to link estimating…