Bayes, Jeffreys, Prior Distributions and the Philosophy of Statistics

Abstract

Discussion of "Harold Jeffreys's Theory of Probability revisited," by Christian Robert, Nicolas Chopin, and Judith Rousseau, for Statistical Science [arXiv:0804.3173]

arXiv commentPublished in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS284D the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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