Confidence distribution, the frequentist distribution estimator of a parameter: a review

DOI10.1111/INSR.12000zbMATH Open1416.62170OpenAlexW2167958905MaRDI QIDQ4968547FDOQ4968547

Kesar Singh, Minge Xie

Publication date: 16 July 2019

Published in: International Statistical Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.12000

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian methodconfidence distributionstatistical inferencelikelihood functionestimation theoryfiducial distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02)

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