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AN APPROXIMATE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR FOR CHAIN BINOMIAL MODELS |
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| Authors: | I W Saunders |
| Institution: | CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Canberra |
| Abstract: | Using the Poisson approximation to the Binomial distribution, we construct an approximate maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for a class of chain binomial models. Our estimator proves to have properties which may make it preferable to the exact WLE. |
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