False confidence, non-additive beliefs, and valid statistical inference

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2019.06.005zbMath1471.62236arXiv1607.05051OpenAlexW2943819575WikidataQ127581138 ScholiaQ127581138MaRDI QIDQ2302767

Ryan Martin

Publication date: 26 February 2020

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05051

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesfiducialinferential modelrandom setplausibility function\( p \)-value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• BayesDA

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