BS2 Further Statistical Inference HT08 - Lecture 2

Nuisance parameters

This lecture discusses nuisance parameters, the difficulties they create and concepts for treating them in a proper way.

Recommended reading for this lecture (and the former) is

Young and Smith (2005),  Chapter 6 and 7, in particular 6.2, 6.3, 7.2.

Leonard and Hsu (1999), Section 1.5.

but also Cox (2006), Chapter 4 and 7, in particular sections 4.1-4.3 and 7.2.

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