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.