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)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA120967

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  • George E. P. Box

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  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Binomials
  • Biological Sciences
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  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
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  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Observation
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Probability
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Inference
  • Statistics
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  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
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