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The theory of estimating functions has become of interest in a wide variety of statistical applications, partly because it has a number of virtues in common with methods such as maximum likelihood estimation while possessing sufficient flexibility to tackle problems where maximum likelihood fails, such as the Neyman-Scott paradox. In this monograph we present a self-contained development with a number of applications to estimation, censoring, robustness and inferential separation of parameters.
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McLeish, D.L., Small, C.G. (1988). Introduction. In: The Theory and Applications of Statistical Inference Functions. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 44. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3872-0_1
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