Credible and confidence sets for restricted parameter spaces

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 479-490

  Zhang, Tonglin ^a   Woodroofe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequentist coverage probability; Prior and posterior distributions; Signals and noise; Total positivity; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038578414     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00170-2     Document Type: Article

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