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Confidence distributions: a review. (English) Zbl 1486.62071

Summary: A review is provided of the concept confidence distributions. Material covered include: fundamentals, extensions, applications of confidence distributions and available computer software. We expect that this review could serve as a source of reference and encourage further research with respect to confidence distributions.

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62F25 Parametric tolerance and confidence regions
62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics

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