Bayes without priors

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-13

  Aickin, Mikel ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis tests; Likelihood function; Statistical foundations; Theory of inference

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEUKEMIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 1342281226     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00251-8     Document Type: Article

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