A note on Dempster-Shafer recombination of confidence distributions

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 1943-1966

  Hannig, Jan ^a   Xie, Min Ge ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence distribution; Dempster Shafer calculus; Generalized fiducial inference; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875388903     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-EJS734     Document Type: Article

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