Log-Concavity of Multinomial Likelihood Functions Under Interval Censoring Constraints on Frequencies or Their Partial Sums
classification
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cs.LGstat.MLstat.TH
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censoringconstraintsfrequenciesintervallikelihoodmultinomialpartialsums
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We show that the likelihood function for a multinomial vector observed under arbitrary interval censoring constraints on the frequencies or their partial sums is completely log-concave by proving that the constrained sample spaces comprise M-convex subsets of the discrete simplex.
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