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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.