Applied Asymptotics - Hardcoverby A. R. Brazzale (Author), A. C. Davison (Author), N. Reid (Author) In fields such as biology, medical sciences, sociology, and economics researchers often face the situation where the number of available observations, or the amount of available information, is sufficiently small that approximations based on the normal distribution may be unreliable. Theoretical work over the last quarter century has led to new likelihood based methods that lead to