Early career researcher publishes work on likelihood inference in Biometrika

Our early-career colleague Helen Ogden has published a paper on intractable likelihoods in the prestigious journal Biometrika.

Many statistical models have likelihoods which are intractable: it is impossible or too expensive
to compute the likelihood exactly. In such settings, a common approach is to replace the likelihood
with an approximation, and proceed with inference as if the approximate likelihood were the true likelihood.

Her work shows under which conditions these approximations can be validly used.