Optimum inductive methods

zbMath0826.62005MaRDI QIDQ1892403

Roberto Festa

Publication date: 14 June 1995

Published in: Synthese Library (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceexchangeabilityBayesian statisticsDirichlet distributionsverisimilitudeinductive probabilityCarnap's continuum of inductive methodschoice of prior probabilitiesepistemic problem of optimalitygeneralized Carnapian systemsGini diversityhyperempirical approachmeasures of diversitymeasures of homogeneitymultinomial inferencemultivariate Bernoullian processesPopper's approachsubjective approachverisimilitude theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02)

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