Under weak conditions the normalized likelihood with or without weight function almost surely converges to a normal density function: for a real parameter or a vector parameter; with or without the assumption of independent identical distributions. Applications arise for confidence intervals, confidence distributions, structural distributions. and conditional analyses with transformation and structural models.
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Fraser et al. (1984) studied this question.
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