Which of the Following Statements Are True?
A) Maximizing the Likelihood

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements are true?

• A) Maximizing the likelihood estimation is the most widely used estimation technique among statisticians.
• B) Under very general conditions on the joint distribution of the sample, when the sample size n is large, the maximum likelihood estimator of any parameter \(\theta\)
• Is approximately unbiased; that is, \(E ( \hat { \theta } ) \approx \theta\)
• )
• C) Under very general conditions on the joint distribution of the sample, when the sample size n is large, the maximum likelihood estimator of any parameter \(\theta\)
• Has variance, is nearly as small as small as can be achieved by any estimator.
• D) In recent years, statisticians have proposed an estimator, called an M-estimator, which is based on a generalization of maximum likelihood estimation.
• E) All of the above are true statements.

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