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We discuss the estimation of the asymptotic covariance matrix of semi-parametric maximum likelihood estimators by the observed profile information. We show that a discretized version of the second derivative of the profile likelihood function yields consistent estimators of minus the efficient information matrix.
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Murphy et al. (1999) studied this question.
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