7 papers
Physical, subjective and analogical probability
Russell J. Bowater
The aim of this paper is to show that the concept of probability is best understood by dividing this concept into two different types of probability, namely physical probability an…
A very short guide to IOI: A general framework for statistical inference summarised
Russell J. Bowater
Integrated organic inference (IOI) is discussed in a concise and informal way with the aim that the reader is given the gist of what this approach to statistical inference is about…
Integrated organic inference (IOI): A reconciliation of statistical paradigms
Russell J. Bowater
It is recognised that the Bayesian approach to inference can not adequately cope with all the types of pre-data beliefs about population quantities of interest that are commonly he…
Sharp hypotheses and bispatial inference
Russell J. Bowater
A fundamental class of inferential problems are those characterised by there having been a substantial degree of pre-data (or prior) belief that the value of a model parameter was…
Organic fiducial inference
Russell J. Bowater
A substantial generalisation is put forward of the theory of subjective fiducial inference as it was outlined in earlier papers. In particular, this theory is extended to deal with…
Bayesian, classical and hybrid methods of inference when one parameter value is special
Russell J. Bowater, Ludmila E. Guzmán-Pantoja
This paper considers the problem of making statistical inferences about a parameter when a narrow interval centred at a given value of the parameter is considered special, which is…