Calibrated Bayes: A Bayes/frequentist roadmap

American Statistician

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-223

  Little, Roderick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Frequentist statistics; Likelihood principle; Model checking; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747474436     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313006X117837     Document Type: Article

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