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Jakob Bergman
Director of studies, Department of Statistics
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Are the Sweden Democrats really Sweden’s largest party? : A maximum likelihood ratio test on the simplex
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Summary, in English
We introduce a maximum likelihood ratio test to test if a specific proportion is the greatest in a multinomial situation with a single measurement. The test is based on partitioning the parameter space and utilising logratio transformations.
Department/s
- Department of Statistics
Publishing year
2017-01
Language
English
Pages
64-68
Publication/Series
Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume
124
Full text
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Probability Theory and Statistics
Keywords
- isometric logratio transformation
- largest party
- maximum likelihood ratio test
- political polls
- polls, Sweden
- simplex
- 62F03
- 62H15
- 62P25
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0167-7152