Comment: Illusions, Then and Now

• Shafer, Glenn ^[1]
  1. [1] Rutgers Business School
• Localización: Statistical science, ISSN 0883-4237, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 173-174
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1214/19-STS751
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• Resumen

  • The situation of mathematical statistics today resembles the situation of Laplacean probability in the mid-19th century. Strong claims are made about how probability theory should be used. Yet it is widely misused and increasingly not used in the analysis of data. Perhaps we need a philosophy of probability that makes more modest and realistic claims.