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Book Information
Author(s):
J. A. Hartigan
Title:
Bayes theory
Additional book information:
Springer Series in Statistics, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tokyo, 1983, xii + 145 pp., $16.80. ISBN 0-387-90883-8
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- R. A. Fisher, Statistical methods and scientific inference, 3rd ed., Macmillan, New York, 1973. MR 346955
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- S. Geisser, A predictivistic primer, Bayesian Analysis in Econometrics and Statistics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.
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- E. T. Jaynes, Prior probabilities, IEEE Trans. System Sci. Cybernet. SSC-4, (1968), 227-241.
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- H. Jeffreys, Theory of probability, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1939.
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- A. N. Kolmogorov, Foundations of the theory of probability, Chelsea, New York, 1950. (German ed., 1933). MR 32961
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- L. de Robertis and J. A. Hartigan, Bayesian inference using intervals of measures, Ann. Statist. 9 (1981), 235-244. MR 606609
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- L. J. Savage, The foundations of statistics, Wiley, New York, 1954. MR 63582
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- C. Stein, Inadmissibility of the usual estimator for the mean of a multivariate normal population, Proc. Third Berkeley Sympos., Vol. 1, 1956, pp. 197-206. MR 84922
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- A. Wald, Statistical decision functions, Wiley, New York, 1950. MR 36976
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
William D.
Sudderth
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
12
(1985),
294-297.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15384-4
PII:
S 0273-0979(1985)15384-4
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