Fiducial inference for discrete and continuous distributions
Hans-Dieter Heike, Matei Demetrescu, Adina I. Tarcolea · 2003
Abstract. This paper describes the general principles and methods of the fiducial inference. A brief survey of its competing inferencial theories as well as a comparison with them are also provided. Arguments in favour of the application of the fiducial method to the parameters of discrete random variables are given, and, as an application, the fiducial distribution associated to the binomial proportions is shown to be of the beta family.