Wald vs likelihood ratio test

When taking a course on likelihood based inference, one of the key topics is that of testing and confidence interval construction based on the likelihood function. Usually the Wald, likelihood ratio, and score tests are covered. In this post I’m going to revise the advantages and disadvantages of the Wald and likelihood ratio test. I will focus on confidence intervals rather than tests, because the deficiencies of the Wald approach are more transparently seen here.

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