Fiducial inference in the pivotal family of distributions

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 410-432

  Xu, Xingzhong ^a   Li, Guoying ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Confidence bounds; Fiducial distributions; Fiducial model; Frequentist property; Generalized pivotal model; Pivotal family of distributions; Testing hypotheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645652269     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11425-006-0410-4     Document Type: Article

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