In recent years renewed interest in health-related stigma has underscored the importance of better understanding the structural underpinnings of stigma processes. This study investigated the influence of sociocultural context on perceived components of tuberculosis-related stigma in non-affected...

A local power bound is obtained for asymptotic level-[alpha] tests in the presence of infinitely many nuisance parameters. Likelihood ratio tests, conditioning on P-ancillary statistics or based on marginal P-sufficient statistics, attain this power bound, and are thus locally most powerful...