Bayesianly justifiable and relevant frequency calculations for the applied statistician

DOI10.1214/aos/1176346785zbMath0555.62010OpenAlexW2040011853WikidataQ56689491 ScholiaQ56689491MaRDI QIDQ760722

Donald B. Rubin

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346785

zbMATH Keywords

empirical Bayescalibrationstopping rulesposterior predictive checksoperating characteristicsfrequency calculationsmodel monitoringmodel specificationsposterior predictive frequency distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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