The philosophical significance of Stein's paradox

DOI10.1007/s13194-016-0168-7zbMath1400.62021OpenAlexW2578208055MaRDI QIDQ1993539

Elliott Sober, Olav B. Vassend, Branden Fitelson

Publication date: 5 November 2018

Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13303/1/Philosophical%20significance%20of%20Stein%20Preprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

shrinkage estimatorsBayesianismstatistical decision theoryfrequentismStein's paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ridge regression; shrinkage estimators (Lasso) (62J07) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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