A frequentist framework of inductive reasoning

DOI10.1007/s13171-012-0020-xzbMath1281.62027arXivmath/0602377OpenAlexW3099154844WikidataQ57826634 ScholiaQ57826634MaRDI QIDQ2392499

David R. Bickel

Publication date: 1 August 2013

Published in: Sankhyā. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602377

zbMATH Keywords

coherenceartificial intelligencesubjective probabilitymachine learningexpert systemprior elicitationfoundations of statisticsconfidence distributioninterpretation of probabilityconfidence posteriorinductive reasoningbettingpersonal probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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