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The Bayesian approach
Author(s) -
Mainland Donald
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt196785738
Subject(s) - bayesian probability , interpretation (philosophy) , bayesian statistics , bayes' theorem , foundation (evidence) , bayesian inference , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , computer science , mathematical economics , history , archaeology , programming language
'The problem of diagnosis has been solved, in principle, by the Bayesian approach.' This is a remark that I heard made wo or three years ago by an operations research worker in the medical field. 'The foundation stone of the Bayesian approach is a subjective interpretation of probability'‐G. J. Glasser,5 vice chairman of a university department of business statistics.