The nonexistence of confidence sets for discontinuous functionals.

DOI10.1016/S0378-3758(98)00121-9zbMath1041.62508MaRDI QIDQ1299005

Johann Pfanzagl

Publication date: 1998

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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