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RECORD NUMBER: 26 OF 54| Main Title | Bayesian statistical inference | |||||||||||
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| Author | Iversen, Gudmund R. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Sage Publications, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1984 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 11615888 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0803923287 (pbk.) | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Bayesian statistical decision theory ; Statistique bayesienne | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 80 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Bibliography: p. 78-79. |
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| Contents Notes | 1. Thomas Bayes and statistical inference -- 2. Classical statistical inference -- Use of tail probabilities -- Interpretation of confidence intervals -- Uncertainty about parameter values -- 3. Bayes' theorem -- Derivation -- An example -- One population -- 4. Bayesian methods for a proportion -- Proportion -- 5. Bayesian methods for other parameters -- Mean -- Correlation -- Regression -- Contingency tables -- Difference between two means -- Ratio of two variances -- Analysis of variance -- 6. Prior distributions -- Informative versus noninformative priors -- Finding prior distributions -- Subjective nature of priors -- Effect of priors -- 7. Bayesian difficulties -- Priors -- Data probabilities -- Computation -- 8. Bayesian strengths -- Specific reasons -- General reasons. |