Empirical Likelihood is Bartlett-Correctable
经验似然可作 Bartlett 校正
It is shown that, in a very general setting, the empirical likelihood method for constructing confidence intervals is Bartlett-correctable. This means that a simple adjustment for the expected value of log-likelihood ratio reduces coverage error to an extremely low $O(n^{-2})$, where $n$ denotes sample size. That fact makes empirical likelihood competitive with methods such as the bootstrap which are not Bartlett-correctable and which usually have coverage error of size $n^{-1}$…