A likelihood function for the frequency of the A1 allele when 2 A1 alleles are observed in a sample of 10 alleles. The vertical dashed line is drawn through the maximum value of the likelihood ...

Wedderburn's original definition of quasi-likelihood for generalized linear models is extended to allow the comparison of variance functions as well as those of linear predictors and link functions.

In this article, we propose two methods for estimating space and space-time covariance functions from a Gaussian random field, based on the composite likelihood idea. The first method relies on the ...