Expected information as ecpected utility

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344689zbMath0407.62002OpenAlexW2060442802MaRDI QIDQ1258140

José Miguel Bernardo

Publication date: 1979

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344689

zbMATH Keywords

UtilityExperimental DesignBayesian StatisticsDecision ProblemScientific InferenceShannon Information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of statistical experiments (62B15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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