Are the Sweden Democrats really Sweden's largest party? A maximum likelihood ratio test on the simplex

作者：Bergman J^*; Holmquist B

来源：Statistics & Probability Letters, 2017, 124: 64-68.

DOI：10.1016/j.spl.2017.01.006

• Isometric logratio transformation
• Largest party
• Maximum likelihood ratio test
• Political polls
• Polls, Sweden
• Simplex

We introduce a maximum likelihood ratio test to test if a specific proportion is the greatest in a multinomial situation with a single measurement. The test is based on partitioning the parameter space and utilising logratio transformations.

• 出版日期2017-5