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Asymptotic expansion of the risk of maximum likelihood estimator with respect to α-divergence

Yo SheenaFaculty of Economics and Law, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan;Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, Shiga, Japan;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 4059-4087 | Received 10 Jan 2017, Accepted 09 Sep 2017, Published online: 13 Nov 2017

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