A selection bias conflict and frequentist versus Bayesian viewpoints

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 211-217

  Mandel, Micha ^a   Rinott, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Binomial model; Confidence interval; Credible set; Decision theory; Meta analysis; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649088231     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.08243     Document Type: Article

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