A note on Dempster-Shafer recombination of confidence distributions
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A note on Dempster-Shafer recombination of confidence distributions
Abstract: It is often the case that there are several studies measuring the same parameter. Naturally, it is of interest to provide a systematic way to combine the information from these studies. Examples of such situations include clinical trials, key comparison trials and other problems of practical importance. Singh et al. (2005) provide a compelling framework for combining information from ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Electronic Journal of Statistics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1935-7524
DOI: 10.1214/12-ejs734