Belief functions and statistical inference

DOI10.2307/3315449zbMATH Open0708.62005OpenAlexW1979978619MaRDI QIDQ3490754FDOQ3490754

Authors: Larry Wasserman 

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315449

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintyBayesian robustnesslikelihood functionupper and lower probabilitiespartial prior informationDempster Shafer theory of belief functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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