Confidence and likelihood

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 309-332

  Schweder, Tore ^a,b   Hjort, Nils Lid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Abc correction; Bootstrapping likelihoods; Capture recapture data; Confidence distributions and densities; Frequentist posteriors and priors; Integrating information; Neyman Pearson lemma; Pivots; Reduced likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036014604     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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