Fiducial Intervals: What are They?

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-111

  Wang, Y H ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian interval; Conditional inference; Fiducial interval; Frequentist interval; Post data inference; Pre data inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034385545     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474520     Document Type: Article

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