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Confidence, likelihood, probability : statistical inference with confidence distributions / Tore Schweder and Nils Lid Hjort.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge series in statistical and probabilistic mathematicsPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.Description: xx, 500 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780521861601 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.2 23 Sch412
Contents:
1. Confidence, likelihood, probability: an invitation; 2. Interference in parametric models; 3. Confidence distributions; 4. Further developments for confidence distribution; 5. Invariance, sufficiency and optimality for confidence distributions; 6. The fiducial argument; 7. Improved approximations for confidence distributions; 8. Exponential families and generalised linear models; 9. Confidence distributions in higher dimensions; 10. Likelihoods and confidence likelihoods; 11. Confidence in non- and semiparametric models; 12. Predictions and confidence; 13. Meta-analysis and combination of information; 14. Applications; 15. Finale: summary, and a look into the future.
Summary: This 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 at all levels of experience, as well as for data-oriented scientists. Some confidence distributions are less dispersed than their competitors. This concept leads to a theory of risk functions and comparisons for distributions of confidence. Neyman–Pearson type theorems leading to optimal confidence are developed and richly illustrated. Exact and optimal confidence distribution is the gold standard for inferred epistemic distributions. Confidence distributions and likelihood functions are intertwined, allowing prior distributions to be made part of the likelihood. Meta-analysis in likelihood terms is developed and taken beyond traditional methods, suiting it in particular to combining information across diverse data sources.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Confidence, likelihood, probability: an invitation;
2. Interference in parametric models;
3. Confidence distributions;
4. Further developments for confidence distribution;
5. Invariance, sufficiency and optimality for confidence distributions;
6. The fiducial argument;
7. Improved approximations for confidence distributions;
8. Exponential families and generalised linear models;
9. Confidence distributions in higher dimensions;
10. Likelihoods and confidence likelihoods;
11. Confidence in non- and semiparametric models;
12. Predictions and confidence;
13. Meta-analysis and combination of information;
14. Applications;
15. Finale: summary, and a look into the future.

This 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 at all levels of experience, as well as for data-oriented scientists. Some confidence distributions are less dispersed than their competitors. This concept leads to a theory of risk functions and comparisons for distributions of confidence. Neyman–Pearson type theorems leading to optimal confidence are developed and richly illustrated. Exact and optimal confidence distribution is the gold standard for inferred epistemic distributions. Confidence distributions and likelihood functions are intertwined, allowing prior distributions to be made part of the likelihood. Meta-analysis in likelihood terms is developed and taken beyond traditional methods, suiting it in particular to combining information across diverse data sources.

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