To Find the 95% Confidence Interval for the Maximum Likelihood

question 9

Multiple Choice

To find the 95% confidence interval for the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) , we can do which of the following?

• A) Finding the range of parameter values with log-likelihood estimates within 0.05 of the MLE
• B) Finding the range of parameter values with log-likelihood estimates within 0.95 of the MLE
• C) Finding the range of parameter values with log-likelihood estimates within 1.92 of the of the MLE
• D) Finding the range of parameter values with log-likelihood estimates within 1.96 of the log of the MLE

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