Universal inference

DOI10.1073/pnas.1922664117zbMath1485.62020arXiv1912.11436OpenAlexW3039322597WikidataQ97422444 ScholiaQ97422444MaRDI QIDQ5073098

Aaditya Ramdas, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Larry Alan Wasserman

Publication date: 5 May 2022

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11436

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Point estimation (62F10) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30)

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