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Biometrika 1988 75(2):237-249; doi:10.1093/biomet/75.2.237
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Empirical likelihood ratio confidence intervals for a single functional

ART B. OWEN

Department of Statistics, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.

The empirical distribution function based on a sample is well known to be the maximum likelihood estimate of the distribution from which the sample was taken. In this paper the likelihood function for distributions is used to define a likelihood ratio function for distributions. It is shown that this empirical likelihood ratio function can be used to construct confidence intervals for the sample mean, for a class of M-estimates that includes quantiles, and for differentiable statistical functionals. The results are nonpara-metric extensions of Wilks's (1938) theorem for parametric likelihood ratios. The intervals are illustrated on some real data and compared in a simulation to some bootstrap confidence intervals and to intervals based on Student's t statistic. A hybrid method that uses the bootstrap to determine critical values of the likelihood ratio is introduced.

Key Words: Bootstrap confidence interval • Empirical likelihood ratio • Nonparametric confidence interval • Nonparametric likelihood


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