Confidence, Likelihood, Probability: Statistical Inference with Confidence Distributions

by Nils Lid Hjort and Tore Schweder

Book Overview

This lively book lays out a methodology of confidence distributions and puts them through their paces. Among other merits they lead to optimal combinations of confidence from different sources of information, and they can make complex models amenable to objective and indeed prior-free analysis for less subjectively inclined statisticians. The generous mixture of theory, illustrations, applications and exercises is suitable for statisticians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521861608
• ISBN13: 9780521861601
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.4"