STATISTICA  SINICA

Volume 21  Number 1  January 2011

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Composite Likelihood Methods
  Introduction to Special Issue
Nancy Reid, Bruce Lindsay and Kung-Yee Liang
1
  An overview of composite likelihood methods
Cristiano Varin*, Nancy Reid and David Firth
5
  On composite likelihoods in statistical genetics
F. Larribe* and P. Fearnhead
43
  Issues and strategies in the selection of composite likelihoods
Bruce G. Lindsay, Grace Y. Yi* and Jianping Sun
71
  Maximum local partial likelihood estimators for the counting process intensity function and its derivatives
Feng Chen*
107
  Adjusting composite likelihood ratio statistics
Luigi Pace, Alessandra Salvan* and Nicola Sartori
129
  Bayesian composite marginal likelihoods
Francesco Pauli, Walter Racugno and Laura Ventura*
149
  Composite likelihood EM algorithm with applications to multivariate hidden Markov model
Xin Gao* and Peter X.-K. Song
165
  Pseudo-likelihood estimation for incomplete data
Geert Molenberghs*, Michael G. Kenward, Geert Verbeke and Teshome Birhanu
187
  A pairwise likelihood method for correlated binary data with/without missing observations under generalized partially linear single-index models
Wenqing He and Grace Y. Yi*
207
  An EM composite likelihood approach for multistage sampling of family data
Y. Choi* and L. Briollais
231
  Comments on pairwise likelihood in time series models
Richard A. Davis and Chun Yip Yau*
255
  Composite likelihood for time series models with a latent autoregressive process
Chi Tim Ng, Harry Joe*, Dimitris Karlis and Juxin Liu
279
  Nuisance parameters, composite likelihoods and a panel of GARCH models
Cavit Pakel, Neil Shephard* and Kevin Sheppard
307
  Extending pseudo-likelihood for Potts models
Saisuke Okabayashi*, Leif Johnson and Charles J. Geyer
331
General
  Semi-parametric inference for copula models for truncated data
Takeshi Emura, Weijing Wang* and Hui-Nien Hung
349
  Theory of Gaussian variational approximation for a Poisson mixed model
Peter Hall, J. T. Ormerod and M. P. Wand*
369
  Nonconcave penalized M-estimation with a diverging number of parameters
Gaorong Li, Heng Peng* and Lixing Zhu
391
  Optimality criteria for multiresponse linear models based on predictive ellipsoids
Xin Liu, Rong-Xian Yue* and Fred J. Hickernell
421
  Frequency properties of inferences based on an integrated likelihood function
Thomas A. Severini*
433
  Empirical Bayesian thresholding for sparse signals using mixture loss functions
Vikas C. Raykar and Linda H. Zhao*
449