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We introduce a likelihood-based approach, which we refer to as the semiparametric method, and show that this method is an appealing alternative.

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  1. noun A means or manner of procedure, especially a regular and systematic way of accomplishing something: a simple method for making a pie crust; mediation as a method of solving disputes. See Usage Note at methodology.
  2. noun Orderly arrangement of parts or steps to accomplish an end: random efforts that lack method.
  3. noun The procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline or field of knowledge: This field course gives an overview of archaeological method.

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  • Though the method is an advanced one, it has been so simplified that pupils experience no difficulty, but rather an added interest, in following it; the author himself has successfully employed it in classes so large that the simplest and most practical plan has been a necessity 8. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
  • If this method was adopted for the propagation of plants and animals, no reason can be given why it might not also have been adopted for the production of planets and moons; nor would it in the latter case, any more than in the former, impair the evidence of God's creative wisdom and power. —  Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
  • This method is applicable to the large group of azo dye-stuffs derived from coal tar, and also to the acid dyes prepared from the basic coal-tar colours by the process of sulphonation It is also used to apply indigo carmine to wool, probably the only good example of a natural dye-stuff applied by this process. —  The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
  • This method has been attended to by the Southampton Committee The great object that Christians should have in view, should be to instruct them in the blessed truths of the Christian religion, imbue them with a happy sense of honesty and morality, and then reclaim them wholly from their unsettled and wandering habits; for until they have some knowledge of religion, and some anxiety to reform, they would only be worse by being brought constantly before the bad examples that would be set them in towns. —  The Gipsies' Advocate or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of The English Gipsies
  • In either case the method is the same Pin the headsize wire on this pattern and try on to shape. —  Make Your Own Hats
 

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  1. Middle English, medical procedure, from Latin methodus, method, from Greek methodos, pursuit, method : meta-, beyond, after; see meta- + hodos, way, journey.

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  1. = Old French methode, French méthode = Spanish método = Portuguese methodo = Italian metodo = D. G. Danish methode = Swedish method, from Late Latin methodus, methodos, a way of teaching or proceeding, from Greek μέθοδος, a going after, pursuit, investigation, inquiry, method, system, from μετά, after, + ὁδὀς, way.
 

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