An Apology for Ecumenism in Statistics.
Abstract
Reasons are advanced for the belief that scientific method employs and requires not one, but two kinds of inference - criticism and estimation; once this is understood the statistical advances made in recent years in Bayesian methods, data analysis, robust and shrinkage estimators can be seen as a cohesive whole. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA120967
Entities
People
- George E. P. Box
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison