Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189081 
Year of Publication: 
1978
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 304
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Because of the presence of Jacobian terms, determinants which arise as a result of a transformation of variables, many common likelihood functions have singularities. This fact has several implications for maximum likelihood estimation. The most interesting of these is that singularities often correspond with economically meaningful restrictions, and can be used to impose the latter. Several applications of this principle are presented. They suggest that maximum likelihood should be preferred to other estimation schemes not only because of its optimal large-sample statistical properties, but also because of its ability to incorporate certain a priori restrictions from economic theory.
Subjects: 
Jacobian
maximum likelihood
loglikelihood
multiple maxima
singularity
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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