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Theory and Methods

Distribution-Free Prediction Sets

Jing Lei Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
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James Robins Department of Epidemiology and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115
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Larry Wasserman Department of Statistics and Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Pages 278-287 | Received 01 Mar 2012, Published online: 15 Mar 2013

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