Statistics: Reflections on the past and visions for the future

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2235-2257

  Radhakrishna Rao, C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Data mining; Decision theory; Hypothesis testing; Large data sets; Machine learning; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244437630     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/sta-100107683     Document Type: Article

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