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Author: 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.

John Aitchison and I. R. Dunsmore, Statistical prediction analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, 1975. MR 0408097

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B. de Finetti, Theory of probability, Wiley, New York, 1974.

Ronald A. Fisher, Statistical methods and scientific inference, Hafner Press [Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.], New York; Collier Macmillan Publishers, London, 1973. Third edition, revised and enlarged. MR 0346955

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S. Geisser, A predictivistic primer, Bayesian Analysis in Econometrics and Statistics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.

David Heath and William Sudderth, On finitely additive priors, coherence, and extended admissibility, Ann. Statist. 6 (1978), no. 2, 333–345. MR 464450

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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.

A. N. Kolmogorov, Foundations of the Theory of Probability, Chelsea Publishing Co., New York, N. Y., 1950. MR 0032961

Lorraine De Robertis and J. A. Hartigan, Bayesian inference using intervals of measures, Ann. Statist. 9 (1981), no. 2, 235–244. MR 606609

Leonard J. Savage, The foundations of statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York; Chapman & Hill, Ltd., London, 1954. MR 0063582

Charles Stein, Inadmissibility of the usual estimator for the mean of a multivariate normal distribution, Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1954–1955, vol. I, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles, Calif., 1956, pp. 197–206. MR 0084922

Abraham Wald, Statistical Decision Functions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y.; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1950. MR 0036976

1.

J. Aitchison and I. R. Dunsmore, Statistical prediction analysis, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975. MR 0408097

2.

B. de Finetti, Theory of probability, Wiley, New York, 1974.

3.

R. A. Fisher, Statistical methods and scientific inference, 3rd ed., Macmillan, New York, 1973. MR 346955

4.

S. Geisser, A predictivistic primer, Bayesian Analysis in Econometrics and Statistics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.

5.

D. Heath and W. Sudderth, On finitely additive priors, coherence, and extended admissibility, Ann. Statist. 6 (1978), 333-345. MR 464450

6.

E. T. Jaynes, Prior probabilities, IEEE Trans. System Sci. Cybernet. SSC-4, (1968), 227-241.

7.

H. Jeffreys, Theory of probability, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1939.

8.

A. N. Kolmogorov, Foundations of the theory of probability, Chelsea, New York, 1950. (German ed., 1933). MR 32961

9.

L. de Robertis and J. A. Hartigan, Bayesian inference using intervals of measures, Ann. Statist. 9 (1981), 235-244. MR 606609

10.

L. J. Savage, The foundations of statistics, Wiley, New York, 1954. MR 63582

11.

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

12.

A. Wald, Statistical decision functions, Wiley, New York, 1950. MR 36976