There Is Individualized Treatment. Why Not Individualized Inference?

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-111

  Liu, Keli ^a   Meng, Xiao Li ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes frequentist dichotomy; Conditional inference; Fiducial inference; Objective inference; Relevance robustness tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973369739     PISSN: 23268298     EISSN: 2326831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-010814-020310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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