“Not Only Defended But Also Applied”: The Perceived Absurdity of Bayesian Inference
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“Not Only Defended But Also Applied”: The Perceived Absurdity of Bayesian Inference
The missionary zeal of many Bayesians of old has been matched, in the other direction, by an attitude among some theoreticians that Bayesian methods were absurd—not merely misguided but obviously wrong in principle. We consider several examples, beginning with Feller’s classic text on probability theory and continuing with more recent cases such as the perceived Bayesian nature of the so-called...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Statistician
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0003-1305,1537-2731
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.760987