
Chapter 11
Generalized Inferential Models
Portions of the material in this chapter are from R. Martin, “Plausibility functions
and exact frequentist inference,” Journal of the American Statistical Association,
to appear, 2015, reprinted with permission by the American Statistical Association,
www.amstat.org, and from C. Liu and J. Xie, “Large-scale two-sample multinomial
inferences and its applications in genome wide association studies,” International
Journal of Approximate Reasoning 55, 330–340, 2014, reprinted with permission by
Elsevier.
11.1 Introduction
In previous chapters, we have demonstrated that the IM framework provides valid
and efficient