Estimating equations
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In statistics, the method of estimating equations is a way of specifying how the parameters of a statistical model should be estimated. This can be thought of as an generalisation of the method of moments.
The basis of the method is to have, or to find, a set of simulataneous equations involving the unknown model parameters which are to be solved in order to define the estimates of the parameters. Various components of the equations are defined in terms of the set of observed data on which the estimates are to be based.
Important examples of estimating equations are the likelihood equations.
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