Confidence, Likelihood, Probability: Statistical Inference with Confidence DistributionsThis lively book lays out a methodology of confidence distributions and puts them through their paces. Among other merits they lead to optimal combinations of condence from different sources of information, and they can make complex models amenable to objective and indeed prior free analysis for less subjectively inclined statisticians. The generous mixture of theory, illustrations, applications and exercises is suitable for statisticians at all