A likelihood function for the frequency of the A1 allele when 2 A1 alleles are observed in a sample of 10 alleles. The vertical dashed line is drawn through the maximum value of the likelihood ...

The existence of maximum likelihood estimates for a class of heterocedastic regression models in considered. For a given dispersion function we show that, under a weak condition, the likelihood in ...

Banker and Maindiratta (1992) provides a method for the estimation of a stochastic production frontier from the class of all monotone and concave functions. A key aspect of their procedure is that the ...