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The difference between profile likelihood and modified profile likelihood depends primarily on the expected value of a certain third order derivative of the log likelihood. It is shown that in exponential family problems this derivative vanishes if the parameter of interest is a mean parameter but in general not when it is a canonical parameter. As examples some matched pair problems for exponential family models are considered.
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Cox et al. (1992) studied this question.
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