'All models are wrong. ': An introduction to model uncertainty

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 217-236

  Wit, Ernst ^a   van den Heuvel, Edwin ^a   Romeijn, Jan Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Confirmation theory; Foundations; Frequentist; Model selection; Model uncertainty; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864010738     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2012.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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