What is a statistical model? (With comments and rejoinder).

DOI10.1214/aos/1035844977zbMath1039.62003OpenAlexW2049954094WikidataQ56061198 ScholiaQ56061198MaRDI QIDQ1873596

Peter McCullagh

Publication date: 14 July 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1035844977

zbMATH Keywords

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Parametric inference (62F99)

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