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Authors’ response to the contributors to the discussion on “Confidence, credibility and prediction”

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This paper examines, from a historical and model-based Bayesian perspective, two inferential issues:

  • the relation between confidence coverage and credibility of interval statements about model parameters;

  • the prediction of new values of a random variable.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Murray Aitkin

  2. Cytel Inc., Boston, USA

    Charles Liu

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Aitkin, M., Liu, C. Authors’ response to the contributors to the discussion on “Confidence, credibility and prediction”. METRON 76, 277–281 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-018-0142-6

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