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Bayesian and frequentist confidence intervals arising from empirical-type likelihoods

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For a general class of empirical-type likelihoods for the population mean, higher-order asymp totics are developed with a view to characterizing its members which allow, for any given prior, the existence of a confidence interval that has approximately correct posterior as well as fre quentist coverage as mentioned in this paper.
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SUMMARY For a general class of empirical-type likelihoods for the population mean, higher-order asymp totics are developed with a view to characterizing its members which allow, for any given prior, the existence of a confidence interval that has approximately correct posterior as well as fre quentist coverage. In particular, it is seen that the usual empirical likelihood always allows such a confidence interval, while many of its variants proposed in the literature do not enjoy this property. An explicit form of the confidence interval is also given.

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