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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

Author

  • Jakob Bergman
  • Björn Holmquist

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

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