Computation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Confidence Regions With the Likelihood Ratio

Adam Jaeger

The American Statistician, 2016, vol. 70, issue 4, 395-398

Abstract: The asymptotic results pertaining to the distribution of the log-likelihood ratio allow for the creation of a confidence region, which is a general extension of the confidence interval. Two- and three-dimensional regions can be displayed visually to describe the plausible region of the parameters of interest simultaneously. While most advanced statistical textbooks on inference discuss these asymptotic confidence regions, there is no exploration of how to numerically compute these regions for graphical purposes. This article demonstrates the application of a simple trigonometric transformation to compute two- and three-dimensional confidence regions; we transform the Cartesian coordinates of the parameters to create what we call the radial profile log-likelihood. The method is applicable to any distribution with a defined likelihood function, so it is not limited to specific data distributions or model paradigms. We describe the method along with the algorithm, follow with an example of our method, and end with an examination of computation time. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1182946

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