A Bayesian Approach to some Cryptic Issues on the Nature of Statistical Inference
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On the occasion of his 1997 Bernoulli Lecture at Groningen University (The Netherlands), Sir David Cox exercised his usual wit to propose consideration of 14 cryptic issues on the nature of statistical inference. A group of scholars (Kardaun et al., 2002) formulated some sort of commmunis opino on these matters from a traditional, mostly frequentist, viewpoint. In a somewhat telegraphic style, a possible alternative approach to those issues is described below from very different viewpoint. In Section 1, some required foundational points are discussed; Section 2 contain a possible Bayesian approach to the 14 issues discussed.
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