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Re: st: Question on stir


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Question on stir
Date   Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:34:37 +0200

Tim wrote:
 
But I have not heard that maximum likelihood asymptotic results 
systematically underestimates the standard error, as seems to be the case 
here. 
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I am not a statistician, so this is more by intuition:
 
A chi-square test consistently gives, with few observations, a too low P-value compared to an exact test.
 
A simple estimation of continuous data gives, with few observations, a too narrow confidence interval; that is why the t-distribution was invented.
 
Isn't the same principle at play here?
 
As said: I am not a statistician, and somebody else must take over from here, if needed.
 
Svend
 
 
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