Inference about constrained parameters using the elastic belief method

DOI10.1016/J.IJAR.2012.02.003zbMATH1446.62082OpenAlexW2139105891MaRDI QIDQ448949FDOQ448949

Authors Duncan Ermini Leaf, Chuanhai Liu

Publication date 11 September 2012

Published in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2012.02.003

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalinferential modelbounded parametermaximal belief

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Foundational topics in statistics (62A99) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30)

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