Approximations of marginal tail probabilities for a class of smooth functions with applications to Bayesian and conditional inference

DOI10.1093/biomet/78.4.891zbMath0753.62010OpenAlexW2102823390MaRDI QIDQ4020629

Michael A. Martin, Thomas J. DiCiccio

Publication date: 17 January 1993

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/78.4.891

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionexponential familiesnumerical examplesconditional inferenceconditional likelihoodnatural parameterconfidence limitnoncentral \(t\)-distributionexponential regression modelasymptotic approximation of marginal tail probabilitiesmarginal posterior distribution functionrefinements of the standard normal approximationsigned root likelihood ratio statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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