Countable additivity and the foundations of Bayesian statistics

Theory and Decision

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 127-135

  Howard, John V ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Countable additivity; Finite additivity; Foundations

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; COUNTABLE ADDITIVITY; FINITE ADDITIVITY;

STATISTICS;

EID: 33646401131     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-005-4594-9     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Berger, J.O. and Wolpert, R.L. (1988), The Likelihood Principle, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
2. Billingsley P. (1986), Probability and Measure, Wiley, New York.
3. Brams, S.J. and Kilgour, D.M. (1995), The box problem: To switch or not to switch, Mathematics Magazine 68, 27-34.
4. de Finetti, B. (1974). Theory of Probability, Vol. 1, Wiley, New York.
5. Goldstein, M. and Howard, J.V. (1991). A Likelihood Paradox, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B 53, 619-628.
6. Good, I.J. (1950), Probability and the Weighing of Evidence, Griffin, London.
7. Howard, J.V. (1975), Computable Explanations, Zeitschr. f. math. Logik and Grundlagen d. Math 21, 215-224.
8. Williamson, J. (1999), Countable additivity and subjective probability, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50, 401-416.