Statistics has been developing for almost 250 years - since the publication of an essay which included one theorem called Bayes´ after the author. This whole period (since 1763 to this day) has been accompanied by a duel between the supporters of a subjective concept of probability and those...

Statistics has been developing for almost 250 years - since the publication of an essay which included one theorem called Bayes´ after the author. This whole period (since 1763 to this day) has been accompanied by a duel between the supporters of a subjective concept of probability and those...

Statistics has been developing for almost 250 years - since the publication of an essay which included one theorem called Bayes´ after the author. This whole period (since 1763 to this day) has been accompanied by a duel between the supporters of a subjective concept of probability and those...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...

The Search for Certainty was published in 2009 by Krzysztof Burdzy. It examines the "philosophical duopoly" of von Mises and de Finetti at the foundation of probability and statistics and find this duopoly missing. This review exposes the weakness of the arguments presented in the book, it...