Machine generated contents note: 1 Classical Statistical Procedures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Score Vector, the Information Matrix, and the Cramer-Rao -- Lower Bound -- 1.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Test Procedures -- 1.4 Nuisance Parameters -- 1.5 Differentiation and Asymptotics --...

The computational properties of an econometric method are fundamentaldeterminants of its importance and practical usefulness, in conjunction withthe method’s statistical properties. Computational methods in econometricsare advanced through successfully combining ideas and methods in...