Coherent dispersion criteria for optimal experimental design

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-81

  Dawid, A Philip ^a   Sebastiani, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian decision theory; Coherence; Concavity; Dispersion standard; Optimal design; Optimality criterion; Proper scoring rule; Uncertainty function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033243856     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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