Comment: The importance of Jeffreys's legacy

DOI10.1214/09-STS284AzbMATH Open1328.62010arXiv1001.2970MaRDI QIDQ903271FDOQ903271

Authors: Robert E. Kass 

Publication date: 5 January 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Theory of Probability is distinguished by several high-level philosophical attitudes, some stressed by Jeffreys, some implicit. By reviewing these we may recognize the importance in this work in the historical development of statistics. [arXiv:0804.3173]

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2970

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• The Statistical Education of Harold Jeffreys
• An appreciation of Ed Jaynes
• Harold Jeffreys' Probabilistic Epistemology: Between Logicism And Subjectivism

zbMATH Keywords

approximate Bayesian inferenceBayes factorsstatistical models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03)

Cites Work

• Bayes Factors
• The Selection of Prior Distributions by Formal Rules
• The geometry of asymptotic inference. With comments and a rejoinder by the author
• Role of models in statistical analysis
• Model specification: The views of Fisher and Neyman, and later developments
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• From mouse-to-man: The quantitative assessment of cancer risks. With comments and a rejoinder by the authors
• What is statistics?

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• Harold Jeffreys's \textit{Theory of probability} revisited
• An appreciation of Ed Jaynes
• Rejoinder: ``Harold Jeffreys's \textit{Theory of probability} revisited
• The Jeffreys-Lindley paradox and discovery criteria in high energy physics

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