Calibrated Bayes, an inferential paradigm for official statistics in the era of big data

Statistical Journal of the IAOS

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 555-563

  Little, Roderick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Big data; Frequentist statistics; Robust models; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948768804     PISSN: 18747655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SJI-150944     Document Type: Article

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