Inference about constrained parameters using the elastic belief method

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2012.02.003zbMath1446.62082OpenAlexW2139105891MaRDI QIDQ448949

Duncan Ermini Leaf, Chuanhai Liu

Publication date: 11 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2012.02.003

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalinferential modelbounded parametermaximal belief

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Point estimation (62F10) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30) Foundational topics in statistics (62A99)

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