A general method for comparing probability assessors

DOI10.1214/aos/1176347398zbMath0703.62008OpenAlexW1997647721MaRDI QIDQ916226

Mark J. Schervish

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347398

zbMATH Keywords

calibrationdominancerefinementsufficiencyscoring rulesloss functionssubjective probabilitiescomparison of forecastersprobability assessorweather forecasts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of statistical experiments (62B15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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