Inferential models: A framework for prior-free posterior probabilistic inference

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 108, Issue 501, 2013, Pages 301-313

  Martin, Ryan ^a   Liu, Chuanhai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief function; Plausibility function; Predictive random set; Score function; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878232344     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.747960     Document Type: Article

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