A prior-free framework of coherent inference and its derivation of simple shrinkage estimators

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2013.08.011zbMath1279.62068OpenAlexW2028437104WikidataQ57826609 ScholiaQ57826609MaRDI QIDQ393558

David R. Bickel, Marta Padilla

Publication date: 23 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://biostats.bepress.com/cobra/art95

zbMATH Keywords

confidence measuresfiducial inferenceconfidence curvesconfidence distributionsconfidence posterior distributionsfiducial shrinkageobserved confidence levels

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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