scientific article; zbMATH DE number 845703

zbMath0834.62004MaRDI QIDQ4864282

Peter Walley

Publication date: 18 April 1996

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zbMATH Keywords

inductive logicinvariance principlerandomized clinical trialsDirichlet distributionBernoulli trialsimprecise probabilitiesmultinomial datacontingency tableimprecise Dirichlet modelprior ignorancenew methodfrequentist inferencescardiorespiratory failurecoherent inferencesposterior upper and lower probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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