An optimum property for Fiducial Inference

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-292

  Kroese, A H ^a   Salome D ^b   Schaafsma, W ^b  

^a Statistics Netherlands PO Box 4000 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

decision theory; distributional inference; foundations of statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951773440     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1999.17.3.285     Document Type: Article

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