The problem of regions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1687-1718

  Efron, Bradley ^a   Tibshirani, Robert ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap reweighting; Discrete estimation problems; Metric free methods; Objective Bayes methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264630     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691353     Document Type: Article

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