Severity parameters play a crucial role in the operational risk (OpRisk) capital estimates for Advanced Measurement Approach banks. When relying on maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs), nonrobustness ...
Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) When the data in a polynomial regression problem come in grouped form, finding the maximum likelihood estimates of the ...
The non-Gaussian maximum likelihood estimator is frequently used in GARCH models with the intention of capturing heavy-tailed returns. However, unless the parametric likelihood family contains the ...
The following data are taken from Lawless (1982, p.193) and represent the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last 2 observations are censored data from a ...