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With a parametric model, a measure of departure for an interest parameter is often easily constructed but frequently depends in distribution on nuisance parameters; the elimination of such nuisance parameter effects is a central problem of statistical inference. Fraser & Wong (1993) proposed a nuisance-averaging or approximate Studentization method for eliminating the nuisance parameter effects. They showed that, for many standard problems where an exact answer is available, the averaging method reproduces the exact answer. Also they showed that, if the exact answer is unavailable, as say in the gamma-mean problem, the averaging method provides a simple approximation which is very close to that obtained from third order asymptotic theory. The general asymptotic accuracy, however, of the method has not been examined. In this paper, we show in a general asymptotic context that the averaging method is asymptotically a second order procedure for eliminating the effects of nuisance parameters.
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Fraser, D.A.S., Wong, A.C.M. On the accuracy of approximate studentization. Statistical Papers 38, 351–356 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925274
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