Elements of Frequentist Inference

Leonhard Held and Daniel Sabanés Bové
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Leonhard Held: University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
Daniel Sabanés Bové: University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Chapter 3 in Applied Statistical Inference, 2014, pp 51-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses fundamental concepts of frequentist inference, such as unbiasedness and consistency, standard errors and confidence intervals, significance tests and P-values. There is also a section on the bootstrap method. Exercises are given at the end.

Keywords: Frequentist Inference; Wald Confidence Intervals; Approximate Pivot; Actual Coverage Probability; Asymptotic Unbiasedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37887-4_3

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