Stat 418 – Day 3Last TimeConfidence interval for pLikelihood functionTest of significance?Likelihood ratio testTo DoStat 418 – Day 3Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Ch. 1)Last TimeMultiple confidence interval procedures for Main goal: Achieve stated confidence level, e.g., 95% of intervals for all possible random samples capture the value of the parameterAlso nice if narrowerConfidence interval for Exact binomialWald intervalScore interval (Wilson)Which values of would not be rejected…Adjusted Wald (Agresti & Coull, 1998)Approximate is better than "exact" for interval estimation of binomial proportions, American Statistician, 52:119–126.Likelihood function=C(407,248) 248(1-)209Test of significance?Gives you a point estimateAlso allows you to compare to other valuesAnother value of will be plausible if the likelihood function at that value isn’t too much smallerLikelihood ratio testLikelihood Ratio compares the unrestricted maximum likelihood to value under nullPearson is z2 from “score” test (two-sided)To DoFinish reading Ch. 1Investigation 1HW 1 solutions posted tonight?HW 2 posted this weekend?Final Exam survey (by
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