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May 2009 Comment: The Importance of Jeffreys’s Legacy
Robert Kass
Statist. Sci. 24(2): 179-182 (May 2009). DOI: 10.1214/09-STS284A

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Theory of Probability is distinguished by several high-level philosophical attitudes, some stressed by Jeffreys, some implicit. By reviewing these we may recognize the importance in this work in the historical development of statistics.

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Robert Kass. "Comment: The Importance of Jeffreys’s Legacy." Statist. Sci. 24 (2) 179 - 182, May 2009. https://doi.org/10.1214/09-STS284A

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Published: May 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 14 January 2010

zbMATH: 1328.62010
MathSciNet: MR2655844
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/09-STS284A

Keywords: Approximate Bayesian inference , Bayes factors , statistical models

Rights: Copyright © 2009 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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