Combining information from independent sources through confidence distributions

DOI10.1214/009053604000001084zbMath1064.62003arXivmath/0504507OpenAlexW2090435477MaRDI QIDQ1781156

Kesar Singh, William E. Strawderman, Min-ge Xie

Publication date: 23 June 2005

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504507

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrap meta-analysis frequentist inference \(U\)-statistic robust scale computer intensive methods \(p\)-value function common mean problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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