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H-likelihood: problems and solutions

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In recent issues of this journal it has been asserted in two papers that the use of h-likelihood is wrong, in the sense of giving unsatisfactory estimates of some parameters for binary data (Kuk and Cheng, 1999; Waddington and Thompson, 2004) or theoretically unsound (Kuk and Cheng, 1999). We wish to refute both these assertions.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

    Youngjo Lee

  2. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    John A. Nelder

  3. Division of Mathematical Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan, 608-737, Korea

    Maengseok Noh

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Lee, Y., Nelder, J.A. & Noh, M. H-likelihood: problems and solutions. Stat Comput 17, 49–55 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-006-9006-7

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