The likelihood principle
Historical papers
A. Birnbaum (1962): On the foundations of statistical inference (with discussion).
J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. 57: 269-306.
C. Stein (1962): A remark on the likelihood principle. J. Roy. Stat. Soc.
A 125: 565-568.
J. Durbin (1970): On Birnbaum's theorem on the relation between sufficiency,
conditionality, and likelihood. J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. 65: 395-398.
Modern references
J. O. Berger and R. L. Wolpert (1984): The Likelihood Principle./
IMS Lecture Note Series, vol. 6. Hayward: IMS.
D. A. S. Fraser (1979): Inference and Linear Models. New York: McGraw-Hill.
A. W. F. Edwards (1992): Likelihood. Expanded edition. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkind University Press.