“Not Only Defended But Also Applied”: The Perceived Absurdity of Bayesian Inference

DOI10.1080/00031305.2013.760987OpenAlexW2032283764MaRDI QIDQ5877094

Christian P. Robert Robert, Andrew Gelman

Publication date: 3 February 2023

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5366

zbMATH Keywords

frequentistfoundationsLaplace law of successionbogositydoomsdsay argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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