Confessions of a pragmatic statistician

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-20

  Chatfield, Chris ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Context; Frequentist approach; Model building; Problem solving; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484817     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00294     Document Type: Article

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