Abstract
In this paper, a theory on sieve likelihood ratio inference on general parameter spaces (including infinite dimensional) is studied. Under fairly general regularity conditions, the sieve log-likelihood ratio statistic is proved to be asymptotically χ2 distributed, which can be viewed as a generalization of the well-known Wilks' theorem. As an example, a semiparametric partial linear model is investigated.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 67-78 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Science in China, Series A: Mathematics |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation of the USA (Grant IIS-0328802, Grant DMS-0072635) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant. No. 10071090 and 10231030).
Keywords
- Likelihood ratio sieves
- Nonparametric and semiparametric models
- Wavelets