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LIKELIHOOD-BASED INFERENCE IN SOME TRUNCATED AND

CENSORED CONTINUOUS EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES WITH

UNKNOWN THRESHOLD PARAMETER

by

Thomas M. Dubinin

William E. Wecker Associates, Inc.

Stephen B. Vardeman

Iowa State University

 

ABSTRACT

We consider likelihood-based inference in some truncated and censored continuous exponential families with unknown threshold parameters. The introduction of threshold parameters necessitates substantial modification of the standard asymptotic arguments based on regularity conditions that fail to hold in this context, and some possibly unexpected limiting distributional results follow.