Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics

by Joseph B. Kadane, Teddy Seidenfeld, Mark J. Schervish

Book Overview

This important collection of essays is a synthesis of foundational studies in Bayesian decision theory and statistics. An overarching topic of the collection is understanding how the norms for Bayesian decision making should apply in settings with more than one rational decision maker and then tracing out some of the consequences of this turn for Bayesian statistics. There are four principal themes to the collection: cooperative, non-sequential decisions;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521649757
• ISBN13: 9780521649759
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"