What is a statistical model?

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1225-1267

  McCullagh, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Agricultural field experiment; Bayes inference; Box Cox model; Category; Causal inference; Commutative diagram; Conformal model; Contingency table; Embedding; Exchangeability; Extendability; Extensive variable; Fertility effect; Functor; Gibbs model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042788746     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1035844977     Document Type: Review

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