"Not only defended but also applied": The perceived absurdity of Bayesian inference

American Statistician

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Robert, Christian P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bogosity; Doomsdsay argument; Foundations; Frequentist; Laplace law of succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874380749     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.760987     Document Type: Article

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