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AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYON
THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE
byStephen L. George
A cooperative effort between the Department of ExperimentalStatistics and the Southeastern Forest Experiment StationForest Service U.S.D.A.
Institute of StatisticsMimeograph Series No. 572March 1968
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The Foundations of Statistical Inference--A Bibliography
During the past two hundred years there have been many differences of
opinion on the validity of certain statistical methods and no evidence that
there will be any general agreement in the near future. Also , despite
attempts at classification of particular approaches, there appears to be a
spectrum of ideas rather than the existence of any clear-cut "schools of
thought. "
The following bibliography is concerned with the continuing discussion
in the statistical literature on what may be loosely termed ''the foundations
of statistical inference." A major emphasis is placed on the more recent
works in this area and in particular on recent developments in Bayesian
analysis. Invariably, a discussion on the foundations of statistical inference
leads one to the more general area of scientific inference and eventually
to the much more general question of inductive inference. Since this
bibliography is intended mainly for those statisticians interested in the
philosophical foundations of their chosen field, and not for practicing
philosophers, the more general discussion of inductive inference was
deliberately de-emphasized with the exception of several distinctive works
of particular relevance to the statistical problem.
Throughout, the temptation to gather papers in the sense of a
collector was resisted and most of the papers listed are of immediate
relevance to the problem at hand. The bibliography covers principally the
period from. the early 1940' s to the summer of 1967, but contains in
addition several classical papers from earlier times. No claim is made
as to the completeness of the bibliography or the quality of the papers-
especially the more recent ones.
The form. of the bibliography is fairly standard with the following
abbreviations used throughout:
~ - Journal of the American Statistical Association
AMS - .Az:u'1als of Mathematical Statistics
lSI - International Statistical Institute
JRSS - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
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Anscoinbe, Frank. J., "Statistical Inference,";rns,s" (B), 15(1953),30-76.
Anscombe, F. J. and R. J. Aumann, "A Definition of Subjective Probability,"AMS, 34(1963), 199-205.
Armitage, P., "Consistency in Statistical Inference and Decision,"JRSS, (B), 23(1961), 1-37.---- A discussion to C. A. B. Smith
, "Sequential Medical Trials: Some Comments on F. J. Anscombe's--=Pa-p-e-r," JASA, 58(1963), 384-387·
A reply to Anscombe's review of Armitage's book SequentialMedical Trials. Suggests that consequences of likelihoodinferences may be misleading.
Arrow, Kenneth J., SOcial Choice and Individual Values, Cowles CommissionMonograph No. 12, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1951, 2nd ed. 1963.
Arrow, Kenneth J., David Blackwell, and M. A. Girsh1ck, "Bayes andMinmax Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems," Econometrica,17(1949), 213-243.
Ashby, W. Ross, "Induction, Prediction, and. Decision-Making in CyberneticSystems," Induction: Some' Current Issues, K;y'burg and Nagel (eds.),1963·
Bahadur, Raghu Raj, "Sufficiency and Statistical ,Decision Functions,"AMS" 25(1954), 423-462.
Bahadur, Raghu Raj, and Herbert Robbins, "The Problem of the GreaterMean," AMS, 21(1950), 469-481
Baker, S. F., Induction and Hypothesis: A'Study of the Logic ofConfirmation, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N. Y., 1957.
Barnard, G. A., Discussion of "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JABA, 57(1962), 308.
, Discussion of "Consistency in Statistical Inference and--D-e-c-i-sion," JRSS, (B), 23(1961), 25-27.
, "Fisher's Contribution to Mathematical Statistics,"---~J:'::"RS=S:--, (A), 126(1963), 162-166.
, "Logical Aspects of the Fiducial Argument," Bull. Int.--~St~a~t-. Inst., 40(1964), 2, 870-883.
, "The Meaning of a Significance Level," Biometrika,-----3~4(~1-947), 179-182.
, "Sampling Inspection and Statistical Decisions," JRSS, (B),--~1~6~(1~954), 151-174.
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Barnard, G. A., "Some Logical Aspects of the Fiducial Argument,"JRSS (B), 25(1963), 111-114.---- A discussion of two earlier papers in this volume.
"Statistical Inference," JRSS (B), 11(1949), 115-149.
Barnard, G. A., G. M. Jenkins, and C. B. Winsten, "Liklihood, Inferences,and Time Series,1t JRSS (A), 125(1962), 321-372.
Barrett, W., "The Present State of the Problem of Induction, It Theoria,6(1940).
Bartholomew, D. J., "A Comparison of Some Bayesian and FrequentistInferences," Biometrika, 52(1965), 19-35.
Bartlett, M. S., itA Comment on D. V. Lindley's Statistical Paradox,"Biometrika, 44(1957), 533-534.
See Lindley's article in Biometrika (1957) for original article.
, "Discussion of Professor Pratt's Paper," JRSS (B), 27(1965),--""""19".....7---=-198.
_________, Essays on Probability and Statistics, London, Methuen, 1962.A collection of the author's own lectures given by invitationat various places from 1949 to 1956 with particular emphasison the author's own philosophy of statistical inferences.
, "The Present Position of Mathematical Statistics," JRSS (A),---~1~03~(~1940), 1-29·
, "Probability and Chance in the Theory of Statistics,"---~Pr-o-c-eedings of the Royal Society (A), 141(1933), 518.
_____-,.-_, "Probability, Statistics, and Time," Inaugural Lecture,University College, London.
, "R. A. Fisher and the Last Fifty Years of Statistical---:M::-::'e-:t"':"'h-odology, It JASA, 60(1965), 395-409.
Text of the R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture given in December 1964.
---------, "Statistical Probability," JASA, 31(1946), 553·
Bayes, Thomas, "Essay Toward Solving a Problem in the Doctrine ofChances," The Philosophical Transactions, 53(1763), 370-418.Reprinted in Biometrika, 45(1958), 293-315·
One of the most important publications in the history ofstatistics and probability. Contains a bibliographicalnote by G. A. Barnard.
Bell, E. T., Men of Mathematics, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1937·
Bergmann, Gustav, "The Logic of Probability," American Journal ofPhysics, 9(1941).
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Berkson, J., "Some Difficulties of' Inte!'Tret.ation Encountered in theApplication of the Chi-square irest, If JASA, 33(1938), 526-542.
Bernoulli, Jacob (James), Ars Conjectanr~, Basel, 1713.A German translation of this classic work is available.
Beveridge, W. I. B., The Art of Scientific Investigation, Melbourne,Heinemann, 1951.
Birnbaum, Allan, "The Anomalous Concept of Statistical Evidence, AAxioms, Interpretations in Elementary Exposition," Paperpresented to Joint European Conference of Statistical Societies,Berne, Switzerland, Sept. 14, 1964.
_____.,..--, "Another View on the F'oundations of Statistics," Amer.Stat., 16(1962), 1, 17-21.
Illustrates a viewpoint different from either the "Bayesian"or "Frequentist" positions.
Discussion of "On t.he Foundations of Statistical Inference,"57(1962), 322,
. ,"On the Foundat:i.ons of Statistical Inference," JASA,--~5=7~(1~962), 269-306.
The author deduces the likelihood principle from his"principle of conditionality." A lively discussionfollows the article.
__-=__, "On the Foundations of Statistical Inference: BinaryExperiments," AMS, 32(1961), 414-435,
"A Unified Theory of Estimation, I, " AMS, 32(1961), 112-135.
Bizley, M. T. L., "Some Notes on Probability," Journal of the Instituteof Actuaries Students' Society, 10(1951), 161-203.
Blackwell, David, "Comparison of Experiments," Proceedings of theSecond (1950) Berkeley Symposium on Math. Stat, and Probability,ed. Jerzy Neyman, Berkeley, Univ, of Calif. Press, 1951, 93-102.
Blackwell, David and L. Dubi.ns, ''Merging of Opinions with IncreasingInforriiation," AMS, 33(1962), 882-886.
Blackwell, David and M. A. Girschick, The Theory of Games andStatistical Decisions, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1954.
Although the subject matter of this book is still consideredopen to discussion by most statisticians, the authorslargely ignore philosophy and history in its development.
Bohm, David, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics, London, Routledgeand Kegan Paul, 1957,
Discusses the importance of probability theory in modernphysics, Written for the educated layman.
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Boole, G., Studies in Logic and Probability, LaSalle, Open Court,1952.
Borel, Emile, Elements of the Theo of Probabilit , (translated byJohnE. Freund, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall,Inc., 1965.
Contains philosophical discussion mixed in with thedevelopment of basic mathematical ideas.
____--:' Probability and Certainty, N. Y., Walker and Co., 1963.Discusses how probability is related to "practical"and "absolute" certainty. A slight change of thoughtfrom some of Borel's earlier work.
Probability and Life, New York, Dover Pub., 1962.
, "The Theory of Play and Integral Equations with Skew---::---Symmetric Kernels; On Games that Involve Chance and the Skillof the Players; On Systems of Linear Forms of Skew SymmetricDeterminant and. the General Theory of Play (Translated byLeonard J. Savage)," Econometrica, 21(1953),97-124.
Born, Max, Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance, N. Y., DoverPublications, 1964.
Contains the WaYnflete Lectures delivered at Oxford in1948 together with a more recent essay, lISymbol andReality." Concerned with the philosophical implicationof the use of probability theory in scientific explanation.
Box, G. E. P., Discussion of "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JASA, 57(1962), 311.
Box, G. E. P. and N. R. Draper, "The Bayesian Estimation of CommonParameters from Several Responses," Biometrika, 52(1965),355-365·
Box, G. E. P., and G. C. Tiao, "A Further Look at Robustness viaBayes' Theorem," Biometrika, 49(1962), 419-432.
Box, G. E. P., and G. C. Tiao, '~Bayesian Approach to the Importanceof Assumptions Applied to the Comparison of Variances," Biometrika,51(1964), 153-167.
Box, G. E. P. and G. C. Tiao,Bayesian Point of View,"
'Multiparameter Problems from aAMS, 36(1965), 1468-1482.
Braga-IlIa, Alvise, "A Simple Approach to the Bayes Choice Criterion:The Method of Extreme Probabilities," JASA, 59(1964), 1227·
Braithwaite, Richard Bevan,Inference," Induction:
. eds., 1963.
"The Role of Values in ScientificSome Current Issues, Kyburg and. Nagel,
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Braithwaite, Richard Bevan, Scientific Explanation~ A Study of theFunction of Theory, Probability, and Law in Science, Cambridge,University Press, 1953." .
Book written by a professor of moral philosophy. Chapters5 to 7 deal with probability and statistics using amathematical approach. Chapters 8 to 11 deal withphilosophic matters concerning induction and causality.
__~~_' Theory' of Games as a Tool for the Moral Philosopher,Cambridge: 1955.
Bridgman, P. W., "Science: Public or Private," Philosophy of Science,7( 1940), 36-48.
Bri111nger, D. R., "Examples Bearing on the Definition of FiducialProbability with a Bibliography," AMS, 33(1962), 1349-1355.
Broad, C. D., "On the Relation Between Induction and Probability (I),"Mind, 27(1918).
---:-:-:--=-'Mind,"On the Relation Between Induction and Probabil1ty (II),"
29(1920) .
Brodbeck, May, "An Analytic Principle of Induction?;' Journal ofPhilosophy, 49(1952), 747-750.
Bross, r.15,
D. J., "Statistical Dogma: A Challenge," Amer. Stat.,3(1961), 14-15·Bross issues a challenge to Bayesian and "orthodox"statisticians to put their respective approaches to anempirical test.
, "Linguistic Analysis of a Statistical Controversy,"--Am"--e-r-. Stat., 17(1963), 1, 18-21.
--~~-'JASA,, Discussion of "On the Foundations of Statistical Inference,"57(1962), 309·
Brown, G. Spencer, Probability and Scientific Inference, N. Y., Longmans,Green and Co., 1957.
Burks, A. W., "The Presupposition Theory of Induction," Philosophyof Science, 20(1954).
Carlsson, Gosta, "Sampling, Probability, and Causal Inference,"Theoria, 18(1952).
Carnap, Rudolf, "On the Application of Inductive Logic," Phi1os.and Phenom. Res., 8(1947-48).
, "An Axiom System of Inductive Logic," (Mimeographed--N=o'""':t-e-s), UCLA, 1959-61.
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Carnap, Rudolf, The Continuum of Inductive Methods, Chicago,University of Chicago Press, 1952.
A chapter of the proposed second volume to Carnap'sLogical Foundations of Probability. Gives methods fordetermining the (inductive) probability of a givenhypothesis on the basis of a given body of evidence.
"On Inductive Logic," Philos. of Science, 12(1945), 72-97.
____~~-, Induktive Logik und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Vienna, SpringerVerlag, 1959.
____~~~, Logical Foundations of Probability, Chicago, Universityof Chicago Press, 1950. (2nd ed. -1962). '
Volume I of the proposed two-volume work, Probability andInduction. Defines two kinds of probability (l'l and P2).PI is a "degree of confirmation" and P2 is the "relatrvefrequency" or usual statistical defini"tion.
____~~_, The Nature and Application of Inductive Logic, Chicago,University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Selected sections of Logical Foundations of Probability.
, "Notes on Probability and Induction," (Mimeographed----,N=o""":t-e-s), UCLA, 1955.
----~---,Res. ,"Remarks on Induction and Truth,"
6( 1945-46).Philos. and Phenom.
, "Two Concepts of ProbabiIity, " Philos. and Phenom. Res.,--5~(1"""'9""'44'-45).
Chatalian, George, "Induction and the Problem of the External World,"Journal of Philos., 49(1952), 601-607.
Chernoff, H. and L. E. Moses, Elementary Decision Theory, New York,Wiley, 1959.
An introduction to statistics from the decision theory viewpoint.
Churchman, C. West, Prediction and ° timal Decision Philoso hicalIssues of a Science of Values , New York, Prentice-Hall, 19 1.
An exposition of the fundamental problem of the science ofvalues.
, "Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction," Philos. of Science,-----".1-5Cr::I-="94;8) . !
, Theory of Experimental Inference, New York, Macmillan,-----".1~94~8:--.'
A mixture of modern statistical inference and classicalphilosophy. See the review by John Tu~ey in JASA, 44(1949),136-139·
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Clunies-Ross, C. W., 'DiscusSi6nof "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JASA, 57(1962), 314.
Cohan, M. R. and. E. Nagel, An Introduction to' wg1c and ScientificMethod, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1934.
Cohen, John, Chance, Skill, and Luck, London, Pelican, 1960.
Copeland, Arthur H., ''Mathemati~al Proof and Experimental Proof,"Philos. of Science, 33(1966), 303-316.
Cornfield, JerOllle, "Bayes Theorem," ISI Review, 35(1967).
, "A Bayesian Test of Some Classical lIypotheses--With--~---='-:-
Applications to Sequential Clinical Trials," JASA, 61(1966),577-594. ----
One form of data reduction is provided by calculating oneor more posteriordistributions--each correspondirig to adifferent possible prior. Cornfield argues that in clinicaltrials one should use Jeffrey's priors. (See Theory ofProbability. )
, Discussion of "On the Foundations of Statistical--.,.......,,......-Inference," JASA, 57(1962), 309.
__...",.......,.-_' "Sequential Trials, Sequential Analysis, and the LikelihoodPrinciple," Amer. Stat., April, 1966, 18-23.
Cornfield accepts the likelihood principle ("all observationsleading to the same likelihood function must lead to thesame conclusion") as opposed to the orthodox view of proceedingin the light of the probability of rejecting a true hypothesis.
Cox, D. R. (editor), Foundations of Statistical Inference: A Discussion,wndon, Methuen and Co., 1962.
, "Some Problems Connected with Statistical Inference,"----=-.AMS=-==-,-' 29(1958), 357-372.
Cox, R. T., The Algebra of Probable Inference, .Baltimore, Johns Hopkins,1961.
Craik, Kenneth J., The Nature of Explanation, Cambridge, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1943.
Cramer, Harold, Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Princeton, PrincetonUniversity Press, 1946.
Davidson, Donald, Patrik Suppes and Sidney Siegal, Decision Making:An Experimental Approach, Stanford, Calif., Stanford UniversityPress, 1957·
__~~-:-' "A-Firiit1sticAxicimation of Subjective Probability andUtility," Econometrica, 24(1956), 264-275·
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Day, J. P., Inductive Probability, New York, Humanities Press, 1961.
de Finetti, Bruno, "Dans quel sens la theorie des decisions est;'elleet doit elle etre normative?" Colloque sur Decision, Paris,May (1959).
, "Does it Make Sense to Speak of 'Good Probability---:-...,.--Appraisers'?" The Scientist Speculates, I. J. Good, generaleditor, New York, Basic Books, 1962.
, "Fondamenti logici del ragionaments probabilistico,"-----B~o~l~l-. Un. nat. Italo, 1930, 9(Sec. A), 258-261.
__-=-~:--' "Foundations of Probability," . Philosophy in the Mid-Century,La Nuova Italia Editrice, Florence, 1958, 140-147.
, "Foresight: Its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources,"--~--=~.Studies in Subjective Probability, Kyburg and Smokler (eds.),
1964.
, "La notion de 'destribution d'opinin' conune base d'un-----:-essai d' interpretation de la statistique, It Publications· del'Institut de Statistique de l'Universite de Paris, 1(1952), 1-19.
, "La Prevision; Ses lois Logiques, Ses Sources SUbjectives,"---~An'-n-a~les de l'Institut Henri Poincare, 7(1937), 1-68.
English translation in Studies in Subjective Probability(Kyburg and SmokIer, eds.).
, "Recent Suggestions for the Reconciliations of Theories---o-:f:-::P~ro·bability," Proceedings of the Second (1950) Berkeley
Symposium on Math. Stat. and Probability, ed., Jerzy Neyman,Berkeley, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1951, 217-226.
"Le vrai et Ie probable," Dialectica, 3(1949), 78-93·
de Finetti, Bruno, and Leonard J. Savage, "Sul modo di scegliereIe probabilita Iniziali," Biblioteca del "metron, " Sec. C.,Vol. 1, Sui fondamenti della statistica, Rome, University ofRome, 1962.
De Morgan, Augustus, An Essay on Probabilities, 1878.
Dempster, A. P., Discussion of "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JASA, 57(1962), 318.
, "Further Examples of Inconsistencies in the Fiducial---'7'Ar-gu-ment," AMS 34(1963), 884-891-
, "On Direct Probabilities," JRSS, (B) 25(1963), 100-110.-----Introduction to what the author calls "direct" probabilities-
related to fiducial probability.
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Dempster, A. P., "On the Difficulties Inherent in Fisher's FiducialArgument," JASA, 59(1964), 56-·66.
Discusses two modes of interpreting probability anddiscusses them ''lith special emphasis on the confidenceargument (Neyman-Pearson) and the fiducial argument(Fisher),
Diamond, Solomon, The World of Probability: Statistics in Science,New York, Basic Books, 1964.
See review in JASA, 60(1965), 1207.
Doob, J. L., lIprobability and Statistics ," Transactions of theAmerican Mathematical Society, 36(1934),
, "Statistical Estimation," Transactions of the American---:'If.'="".a-:"t"':""h-ematical Society, 39 (1936), 410-421.
Ducasse, C. J., "Causation: Perceivable? Or Only Inferred?"Philos. and Phenom. Res., 26(1965), 173-179.
Ducasse, C. J., "Some Observations Concerning the Nature of Probability,"Journal of Philosophy, 38(1941), 393-403.
Dunsmore, I. R., "A Bayesian Approach to Classification," JRSS (B),28(1966), 568-577. ----
Edwards, W., "Subjective Probabilities Inferred from Decisions,"Psychol. Review, 1962, 69, 109-135 (b).
Edwards, Ward, Harold Luidman, and L. J. Savage, "Bayesian StatisticalInference fop Psychological Research," Psychological Review,70(1963), 193-242.
Ellis, Leslie, liOn the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities,lITransactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 8(1944).
Emmerich, David S. and J. G. Greeno, lISome Decision Factors inScientific Investigation," Philos. of Science, 33(1966), 262-270.
Evans, I. G., '~ayesian Estimation of the Variance of a NormalDistribution," JRSS (B), 26(1964), 63-68.-- .
Feibleman, James,Phenom. Res"
"Pragmatism and Inverse Probability,"5(1944-45)·
Philos. and
Feigl, H., "On the Vindication of Induction," Philos. of Science,. 28(1961).
Feller, W., "Statistical Aspects of E. S. P.," Journal of Parapsycho1.,1 4(1940), 271-298.
, lISur les axiomatiques du calcul des probabilites et leurs---r-e~l-a~tions avec les experiences," Actualites scientifiques et
industrielles, no. 735(1938), 7·
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Fisher, Ronald A., NCommeht on the Notes by Neyman, Bartlett, andWelch in This Journal," JRSS (B), 19(1957), 179.
, ContributiohS to Mathematical Statistics, New York,----=-~--:John Wiley and Sons, 1950.
___~=' The Design of Experiments, Edinburgh and London, Oliverand Boyd, 1935.
__..".,-__' liThe Fiducial Argument in Statistical Inference," Ann.Eugenics, 6(1935), 391-398.
___-:::-_, "Inverse Probability," Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 26(1930),528-535·
,---=3~9--;:8=2.
"The Logic of Inductive Inference," JRSS (A), 98(1935),
"A Note on Fiducial Inference," AMS, 10(1939), 383-388.
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, "On Some Extensions of Bayesian Inference Proposed by----:M~r-.--=Lindley,"JRSS (B), 22(1960), 299-301.
Critical comments on some remarks by D. V. Lindley in areview of Fisher's Statistical Methods and ScientificInference.
, "On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics,"---=Ph~i~l-. Trans. Roy. A. Soc., 222(1922), 309-368.
__-,-__, "Probability, Likelihood., and Quantity of Information inthe Logic of Uncertain Inference," Proc. of the Royal Soc. (A),146(1934) .
Smoking and mng Cancer, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1958.
, "Some Examples of Bayes' Method of the Experimental--=De-'t"'-e-rmination of Probabilities A Priori," JRSS (B), 24(1962), 118-124.
, Statistical Methods for Research Workers, Edinburgh and--~--London, Oliver and Boyd, 1925.
__...".-~-,..' "Statistical Methods and Scientific Induction," JRSS (B),17(1955), 69-78.
Denounces the Neyman-Pearson-WaJd approach to statisticalinference in terms of decisions--choices between hypotheses.Fisher argued that pure scientists never definitely accept anhypothesis.
, Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference, Edinburgh,--"'="Ol""-i"""v-er and Boyd, 1959 (2nd ed.).
See Review in JASA, 52(1957), 322-330 of the 1st edition.Also check D. V. Lindley's review that Fisher later attacked.
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Fisher, Ronald A., "Theory of Statistical Estimation," Proc. ofThe Camb. Phil. Soc., 22(1923-25)'
__-."."...".--..,..' "The Underworld of Probability," Sankhya, J8(1957),201-210.
__-=-__, "TWQ New Properties of Mathematical Likelihood,"Proc. Roy. Soc. (A), 144(1934), 285-307.
Fraser, D. A. S~,
Biometrika,"Fiducial Inference for Location and Scale Parameters,"
51(1964), 17-24.
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,"The Fiducial Method and Invariance," Biometrika,----r4"'?:'8'T':(1:-="961), 261-280. '
Fraser, D. A. S., "On the Sufficiency and Likelihood Principles,"JASA, 58(1963), 641-647.
Discussion of likelihood and sufficiency principles proposedby Burnbaum.
, "On the Consistency of the Fiducial Method," JRSS (B),--~2~4(~1~962), 425-434. ----
__..,....",....."...,..,. "On the Definition of Fiducial Probability,~' Bull. ISI,40(1964), 2, 842-856.
"On Fiducial Inference," AMS, 32(1961), 661-676.
Frechet, Maurice, "Emile Borel, Initiator of the Theory of PsychologicalGames and its Application," Econometrica, 21(1953), 95-96.
Frechet, Maurice, and J. von Neumann, "Cormnentary on the Borel Notes,"Econometrica, 21(1953), 118-127·
Freund, John E., "Puzzle or Paradox?;' Amer. Stat., 19(1965), 4,29 and 44.
Friedman, Milton, "Choice, Chance, and Personal Distribution of Income,"Journal of Political Economy, 61(1953), 277-290·
Friedman, Milton, and L. J. Savage, "The Utility Analysis of ChoicesInvolving Risk," Journal of Political Economy, 56(1948), 279-304.
, "The Expected-Utility Hypothesis and the Measurability---of--U""'tility," Journal of Political Economy, 60(1952), 463-474.
Fry, T. C., "A Mathematical Theory of Rational Inference ( A Nonmathematical Discussion of Bayes' Theorem)," Scripta Mathematica,2(1934), 205-221. '
Geisser, S. and J. Cornfield, "Posterior Distributions for MultivariateNormal Parameters," JRSS (B), 25(1963), 368-376.
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Good, I. J., "The Appropriate Hathematical Tools for Describing andMeasuring Uncertainty," Uncertainty and Business Decisions,Carter, Meredith and Schackle, eds., Liverpool, University Press,1954.
, "A Compromise Between Credibility and Subjective---=---:--::Probability," International Congress of Mathematicians, Abstractsof Short Communications, Stockholm, 1962, 160.
__....",...-,,-_' "A Derivation of the Probabilistic Explication ofInfonnation," JRSS (B), 28(1966), 578-581.
, Discussion of "Consistency in Statistical Inference and---=---Decision," JRSS (B), 23(1961), 28-29·
--~,..",..,,-'JASA,Discussion of "On the Foundations of Statistical Inference,"
57(1962), 312.
__~__, The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essa on ModernBayesian Methods, Cambridge, M.I.T. Press, 19 5.
Concerned with methods for the estimation of probabilitiesfrom "effectively small" samples and with some implicationsof these methods. Text reqUires a modern Bayesian approach.A fairly lengthy bibliography follows.
, "How Rational Should a Manager Be? ," Management Science,---~8~(1~9~62), 383-393.
"Kinds of Probability," Science, 129(1959), 443-446.
-----, "The Paradox of Confinnation," Brit. J. Phil. Sc., 1960.
__-=-.."...."._, Probability and the Weighing of Evidence, New York, HafnerPublishing Co., 1950.
Good's view of probability as credence or degree of beliefin a proposition is shared (to a certain extent) bySavage, deFinetti, Koopman, Ramsey, and others. SeeSavage's review in JASA, 46(1951), 383-384.
"Rational Decision," JRSS (B), 14(1952), 107-ll4.
, "Review of a Paper by K. R. Popper," Math. Rev.,---::'1'7"6(7"::1=955), 376.
The Scientist SpeCUlates: An Anthology of Partly-BakedIdeas, New York, Basic Books, 1962.
A collection of short articles by leading scientistspresenting "half-baked" ideas.
, "Weight of Evidence, Corroboration, Explanatory Power,---::I=-nf'""'::-"o-rmation and the Utility of Experiments," JRSS (B),
, 22(1960),319-331. ----
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Good, I. J., ''Which Comes First , Probability or Statistics?,"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 82-83(1956), 249-255.
Goodman, Nelson, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Cambridge, HarvardUniversity Press, 1955.
Gordon, Charles K., "On the Probability of Past vs. Future Events,"Amer. Stat., 18(1964), 2, 20 and 24.
Gouraud, Charles, Histoire du Calcul des Probabilites, Paris,Libraire d' Auguste Durand, 1848.
Gridgman,' N.· T. , "The Lady Tasting Tea, and Allied Topics,"JASA, 54(1959), 776-783.
Grayson, C. J., Jr., Decisions Under Uncertainty: Drilling Decisionsby Oil and Gas Operators, Boston, Harvard University Press, 1960.
Grundy, P. M., "Fiducial Distributions and Prior Distributions: AnExample in Which the Former Cannot be Associated with the Latter,"JRSS (B), 18(1956), 217-221.
Guttman, Irwin and George C. Tiao, "A Bayesian Approach to Some BestPopulation Problems," AMS, 35(1964), 825-835·
Hacking, Ian, Logic of Statistical Inference, Cambridge, 1965.Attempts to explain the thought underlying statisticalinference in fairly simple terms. See the review inJASA, 61(1966), 1233-1235.
"Possibility," The Philosophical ReView, 76(1967), 143-168.
, "Salmon's Vindication," Philos. of Science, 32(1965),--""'26"'""9---271.
Hailperin, Theodore, "Foundations of Probability in MathematicalLogic," Philosophy of Science, 4(1936-37).
Hall, W. J. and M. R. Novick, "A Note on Classical and BayesianPrediction Intervals for Location, Scale and Regression Models,"AMS, 34(1963), 1619·
Halmos, Paul R., "The Foundations of Probability," American MathematicalMonthly, 51(1944), 493-510.
Harrington, G. M., "Statistics' Logic," Contemporary Psychology,Vol. 6, No.9 (Sept. 1961), 304-305.
Hartigan, J., "Invariant Prior Distributions," AMS, 35(1964), 836-845·
Hartley, H. 0., "In Dr. Bayes' Consulting Room," Amer. Stat.,,17(1963), 1, 22-24.
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Hempel, Carl G. and Paul Oppenheim, "A Definition of 'Degree ofConfinnation', " Philosophy of Science, 12(1945), 98-115.
Hildreth, Clifford,Econometrica,
"Alternative Conditions for Social Orderings,"21(1953), 81-94.
, "Bayesian Statisticians and Remote Clients,"------=Ec-o-n-ometrica, 31(1963), 442-448.
Hodges, J. L. and E. L. rehmann, "Testing the Approximate Validityof Statistical Hypotheses," JRSS (B), 16(1954), 261-268.
, "The Use of Previous Experience in Reaching Statistical--~~-Decisions," AMS, 23( 1952), 396-407.
Hogben, Lance1ot, The Relationshi of Probabi1it ,Credibi1it and Error, London, George Allen and UnWin, Ltd., 1957.
The author presents the present controversies as a crisisin statistical theory. Viewed from a behaviorist viewpoint.
Hopf, E., "On Causality; Statistics, and Probability," Journal ofMathematics and Physics, 12(1934).
Hora, R. B. and R. J. Buehler, "Fiducial Theory and Invariant Estimation,"AMS, 37(1966), 643-656.
, "Fiducial Theory and Invariant Prediction," AMS, 38(1967),--7""-9-5--.:::'801.
Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, London, 1748.
Janossy, L., "Remarks on the Foundations of Probability Calculus,"Acta. Phys. Acad. Hungar., 4(1955), 333-349.
Jaynes, E. T., "Bayes Again!," St. Louis, Washington University, 1965(mu1tilithed) .
Jeffrey, R. C., The Logic of Decision, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965·An approach to decision theory from a Bayesian point ofview. Final chapters treat philosophic questions aboutinference and objectivity within the framework ofsubjective probability theory.
Jeffreys, Harold, '~n Invariant Fonn for the Prior Probability inEstimation Problems," Proc. Roy. Soc. (A), 186( 1946), 453-461.
, Scient1ficInference, Cambridge, Cambridge University----....Pr-e-s-s, 1931. (3rd ed. 1961).
Jeffreys' conception of probability is similar to Keynes.This book is a defense of scientific method based on theauthor's conception of subjective probability.
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Jeffreys, Harold, TheoEl of Probabilit~, Oxford, Clarendon Press,1939, (3rd ed. 1961).
Here Jeffreys distinguishes between estimation and hypothesistesting. He recommends different priors for each.
Jeffreys, Harold, and Dorothy Wrinch, "On Some Aspects of the Theoryof Probability," The Philosophical Magazine, Ser. 6, 38(1919),715-731.
Johns, M. V., "Non-parametric Empirical Bayes Procedures," AMS,28(1957), 649-669.
Johnson, W. E., Appendix to "Probability: Deductive and InductiveProblems," Mind, 41(1932), 421-423.
--..-,---'Mind,"Probability: The Deductive and Inductive Problems,"
41(1932), 409-423.
Kaufmann, Felix, "On the Nature of Inductive Inference," Philos.and Phenom. Research, 6(1945-46).
____--, ''Verification, Meaning, and Truth," Philos. and Phenom.Research, 4(1943-44).
Kemble, E. C. "Is the Frequency Theory of Probability Adequate forall Scientific Purposes'?," Amer. Journal of Physics, 10(1942),6-16.
-----, "The Probability Concept," Philosophy of Science, 8(1941) .
Kemeny, John G. and Paul Oppenheim, "Degree of Factual Support,"Philos. of Science, 19(1952).
, "Extension of the Methods of Inductive Logic,"-----Philosophical Studies, 3(1952).
, ''Fair Bets and Inductive Probabilities," Journal of-----=Sym~b-olic Logic, 20(1955), 263-273.
Kempthorne, Oscar, Discussion of "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JASA, 57(1962), 319.
"Some Aspects of Experimental Inference," JASA,,-------11---3..,..4.
Text of the Fisher Memorial Lecture.
61(1966),
Kendall, Maurice G., "On the Reconciliation of the Theories ofProbability," Biometrika, 36(1949), 101-116.
Kendall, M. G. and A. G. Doig, Bibliography of Stat. Literature,1950-58, New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1962.
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Kendall, M. G. and A. G. Doig, Bibliography of Stat Literature,1940-49, New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1965.
Kerridge:, D., "Bounds for the Frequency of Misleading Bayes Inferences,"AMS, 34(1963), 1109-1110.
Keynes, John Maynard, A Treatise on Probability, London and NeiV' York,Macmillan and Co., 1921 (2nd ed., 1929).
A classic in the history of probability. To Keynes,probability was a relational property linking aproposition with its partial evidence. It is a primitiveidea, ultimate and undefined. An excellent bibliographyemphasizes the philosophical aspects of probability inthe period from Laplace to Keynes.
Kneale, William, Probability and Induction, Oxford, Clarendon Press,1949·
Based on lectures delivered to students of philosophy,this work devotes much effort to the problems ofdefinitions of probability. Also, considerable attentionis devoted to Keynes' Treatise.
Kolmogoroff, A. N., Foundations Of the Theory of Probability, NewYork, Chelsea Publishing Co. 1950.
Koopman, B. 0., "The Axioms and Algebra of Intuitive Probability,"Annals of Mathematics, Series 2, 41(1940), 269-292.
, "The Bases of Probability," Bulletin of the American~---M-a~t~h-ematical Society, 46(1940), 763-774.
__-..,.....,...".._' "Intuitive Probabilities and Sequences," Annals ofMathematics, Series 2, 42(1941), 169-187.
Kraft, C. H., J. W. Pratt, and A. Seidenberg, "Intuitive Probabili~y
on Finite Sets," AMS, 30(1959), 408-419.
Kullback, Solomon, Information Theory and Statistics, New York,John Wiley and Sons, 1959.
An advanced text on the large-sample theory of tests.
Kyburg, Henry E., "Demonstrative Induction," Philos. and Phenom.Research, 21(1960).
--__7:'r::-::'" , "The Justification of Induction," Journal of Philosoph~;'
53(1956), 394-400.
, "Probability and Decision," Philos. of Science,------3~3~(1~966), 250-261.
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KYburg, Henry E., Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief,Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
The first part of this book gives an excellent discussionon the major interpretations of the foundations ofprobability. The author then tries to defend a definitionof probability that corresponds to our intuitive conceptof "rational belief. tr
"Probability and Rationality," Philosophical Quarterly,
KYburg, Henry E. and Ernest Nagel (eds.), Induction: Some CurrentIssues, Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1963.
A collection of essays, comments and discussions presentedat the Wesleyan Conference on Induction in 1961.
Kyburg, Henry E. and H. E. Smokler (eds.), Studies in SubjectiveProbability, New York, John Wiley and sons, 1964.
See the review in JASA, 60(1965), 364.
Laplace, Pierre Simon, "Memoire sur la probabilite des causes parles evenements," Mem. de l'Acad. R. de ScL Paris, 6(1774),621-656.
____~~~, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, New York, DoverPublications, 1952.
This work formed the introduction to Laplace's monumentalTheorie Analytique des Probabilities. Laplace presentedhis own conception of the "meaning" of probality withoutresorting to higher methematics.
_____, Theorie Analytique des Probabilites, Paris, 1812.One 9f the most impressive and far-reaching contributionsmade to the theory of probability.
Leblanc, Hughes, "On Chances and Estimated Chances of Being True,"Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 57(1959), 225-239.
__-::-__, "On ReqUirements for Conditional Probability Functions, "Journal of Symbolic Logic, 25(1960), 238-242.
, "On So-Called Degrees of Confirmation," British Journal---=--"':"':for the Philosophy of Science, 10, 1960.
, "Probabilities as Truth-Value Estimates," Philos. of------Sc-i-e-nce, 28(1961), 414-417.
, "The Problem of the Confirmation of Laws," Philosophical------=St~u~d~ie·s, 12(1961), 81-84.
, Statistical and Inductive Probabilities, Englewood Cliffs,---~N~e-w~Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Attempts to settle "a dispute which cannot but be prejudicialto the philosophy of science." The author defines inductiveand statistical probabilities such that the former areestimates of the latter.
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Leblanc, Hughes, "Statistical and Inductive PrObabilities," Induction:Some Current Issues, Kyburg and Nagel,(eds.), 1963.
Truth and Estimated Truth
, "T.lO Probability Concepts," Journ. of Philosophy, 53(1956),--"7.67::":9:-'--;:'688.
Lehman, R. S., "On Confirmation and Rational Betting," J. SymbolicLogic, 2D(1955), 251-262.
L:::li;1arm, E. L., "Some Principles of the Theory of Testing Hypotheses, "I~S, 21(1950), 1-26.
__..__' Testing Statistical Hypotheses, New York, "Tiley, 1959.
Lenz, J. H., "The Frequency Theory of Probability," The Structureof Scientific Thou ht An Introduction to Philoso h of Science,Madden ed. , Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960.
LeVi, I., "Corroboration and Rules of Acceptance," British Journalfor the Philos. of Science, Feb., 1963.
Levinson, Horace C., Science of Chance From Probability to Statistics,New York, Rinehart, 1950.
LeWis, C. I., An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation, LaSalle, Ill.,The Open Court Publishing Co., 1946.
Lewy, Casimir, "On the Justification of Induction," Analysis, 7(1939).
Lidstone, G. J., "Note on the General Case of the Bayes-Laplace Formulafor Induct i ve or a posteriori Probabilities," Trans. Fac. Actur.,8(1920), 182-192.
Lindley, Dennis V., Discussion of "Consistency in Statistical Inferenceand Decision," JRSS (B), 23(1961), 29-30.
---=-::-=-:-'JASA,Discussion of "On the Foundations of Statistical Inference,"
57(1962), 316.
, "Discussion of Session on Fiducial Probability," Bull. ISI,---~4~0~(1~964), 2, 919-921.
, "Fiducial Distributions and Bayes r Theorem," JRSS (B),---~2~0r=(1~958), 102-107.
, Introduction to Probabilit and Statistics from a Ba esian---=::-::---
Viewpoint, Vols. I Probability and II Inference, Cambridge,University Press, 1965.
A good reference book for the Bayesian approach to many problemsin statistical inference. Attempts to relate classical andBayesian inference. The author has written two earlier volumesfrom a non-Bayesian Viewpoint.
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Lindley, Dennis V. ., frOn a Measure of the Information Provided byan Experiment," .AMS, 27(1956), 986-1005.
___,,---,.,..,-' "Professor Hogben I s Crisis' --A Survey of the Foundationsof Statistics," Appr. Stat., 7(1958),186-198.
__..""..--,_' Review of "Stat. Methods and Scientific Inference," byR. A. Fisher, Heredity, 11(1957), 280-283.
____, "Statistical Inference," JRSS (B), 15(1953), 30-65.
, "A Statistical Paradox," Biometrika, 44(1957), 187-192.------See discussion by M. S. Bartlett (1957).
__-=--",-_, "The Use of Prior Probability Distributions in StatisticalInferences and Decisions," Proc. Fourth Berkeley Symposium, 1,453-468.
Linnik, Yu. V., "On the Behrens-Fisher Problem," Bull. ISI, 40(1964),2, 833-841.
Loeve, M., Probability Theory, Princeton, Van Nostrand Co., 1960 (2nd ed.).
Lucas, J. R.,Research,
"The One Concept of Probability, II Philos. and Phenom.26(1965), 180-201.
luce, Robert Duncan, and Howard Raiffa, Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1957.
An elementary and comprehensive text on the theory of games.See the review in JASA, 53(1958), 758.
Luce, Robert Duncan and P. Suppes, "Preference, Utility, and SubjectiveProbability," Handbook of Mathematical Ps cholo , luce, Bushand Galanter (eds. , New York, Wiley, 19 5.
Machol, R. E. and P. Gray (editors), Recent Developments in Informationand Decision Processes, New York, Macmillan Co., 1962.
Proceedings of a 1961 symposium. Of special interest arearticles by H. Raiffa and L. J. Savage on Bayesian decisiontheory and statistics ..
Mallows, C. L., "The Information in an Experiment, II JRSS (B),21(1959), 67-72. --
Margenan, H., "The Role of Definitions in Physical Science with Remarkson the Frequency Definition of Probability, II American Journalof Physics, 10(1942).
Messick, S. and A. H. Brayfield (editors), Decision and Choice:Contributions of Sidney Siegel, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Michalos, Alex C., "Postulates of Rational Preference," Philos. ofScience, 34(1967), 18-22.
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Michalos, Alex C., "Two Theorems of Degree of Confirmation," Ratio,Dec., 1965.
Milnor, J., "Games Against Nature," Decision Processes, Thrall, Coombs,and David (editors), New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1954.
Mises, Richard von, "Fundamentalsatze der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, "Mathematische Zeitschrift, 5(1919), 1-97 .
, "Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkietsrechnung, " Mathematische-----=Ze~i~t-schrift, 5(1919), 52-99.
Insisted that probability measure the relative frequencywith which the members of a reference set belong toanother set. Greatly stimulated the modern discussion'on the foundation of inductive (including statistical)inference.
____-.--;, "On the Foundations of Probability and Statistics," AMS,12(1941), 191.
, Probability, Statistics and Truth, London, William Hodge,---a-n""d~Co., 1939, and New York, Macmillan, 1957 (2nd edition).
---=---:-'Providence, R.
Molina, Edward C., "Bayes' Theorem," AMS, 2(1931),23-27.
, "Bayes' Theorem, an Expository Presentation," Bell Tel.------=Sy-s~t-em Tech. Publ. Monograph (B), 1931, 557.
Moore, Asher, "The Principle of Induction," Journal of Philosophy,49(1952), 741-747.
Mosteller, F. and D. L. Wallace, Inference and Disputed Authorship:The Federalist, Reading,Mass., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,Inc., 1964.
An example of the use of Bayesian (and other) methods ofdiscrimination--in this case to determine the authorshipof twelve of The Federalist papers.
Munroe, M. E., Theory of Probability, New York, McGraw-Hill Co., 1951.
Nagel, Ernest, "A Frequency Theory of Probability," Journal ofPhilosophy, 30(1933), 533-554.
, "Is the LaPlacean Theory of Probability Tenable?,"------P=h-i~l-os. and Phenom. Research, 6(1945-46).
"The Meaning of Probability," JASA, 31(1936), 10-30.
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Nagel, Ernest, "Principles of the Theory of Probability, ,,International Encyclopedia of Unified SCience, Vol. 1, No. 6Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1939.
__-=-=-~_, "Probability and Non;..Demonstrative Inf'erence,"Philos. and Phenom. Research, 5(1945).
_____, "Probability and the Theory of Knowledge," Philosophyof Science, 6(1939).
__-=~_, "Reichenbach's Theory of Probability," Journal ofPhilosophy, 47(1950), 551-555.
Sovereign Reason, Glencoe, Illinois, 1954.
Neumann, John von, "Zur Theorie der Gesellschoftsspiele, MathematischeAnnalen, 100(1928), 295-320.
Neumann, John von and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and EconomicBehavior, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1953 (3rd edition).
The first book on the modern theory of games--contains aT
detailed discussion of utility theory.
Neyman, Jerzy, "Current Problems of Mathematical Statistics,"Proceedings ofthe Seventh International Congress of Mathematicians, Amsterdam,Groningen: E. P. Nordhoff, 1954, 349-370.
, "Fiducial Argument and the Theory of Confidence Intervals,"------Bi-o-m-etrika, 32(1941), 128-150.
____--, First Course in Probability and Statistics, New York,Henry Holt and Co., 1950.
, "Fisher's Collected Papers," Scientific Monthly,--~4~2(~1~95l), 406-408.
"Indeterminism in Science and New Demands on Statisticians,"JABA, 55(1960), 625-639.~ Invited address delivered at the annual meeting of the
ABA in ,1960.
, "'Inductive Behavior' as a Basic Concept of Philosophy---o-':f~S-cience,"Review ISI, 25(1957), 7-22.
, Lectures and Conf'erences on Mathematical Statistics----.:.-=and Probability, Washington, Graduate School of the U. S. Dept.of Agriculture, 1952.
, "L' estimation statistique, traitee comme un propleme-----classique de probabilitie," Actualites scientifiques et industriellesNo. 739, Paris, Herman et Cie., 1938.
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Neyman, Jerzy, "Note on an Article by Sir Ronald Fisher," JRSS (B),18(1956), 288-294.
Another reply to Fisher's attack on the decision theoryapproach to statistical inference.
"On the Problem of Confidence Intervals," AMS, 6(1935), 111.
__~~_, "On the Two Different Aspects of the RepresentativeMethod: The Method of Stratified Sampling and the Method ofPurposive Selection," JRSS (A), 97(1934), 558-625.
__---.,.__, "Outline of a Theory of Statistical Estimation Based onthe Classical Theory of Probability," Philosophical Transactionsof the Royal Society (A), 236(1937),333-380.
_____, "Raisonnement inductif ou comportement inductif,"Proceedings of the International Stat. Institute, 1947.
_____, "Two Breakthroughs in the Theory of Statistical DecisionMaking," Review ISI, 30(1962), 11-27.
Neyman, Jerzy, and E. S. Pearson, "Contributions to the Theory ofTesting Stat. Hypotheses: I. Unbiased Critical Regions of TypeA and Type Al," Statistical Research Memoirs, 1(1936), 1-161.
__...",,-_..,...' "Contributions to the Theory of Testing StatisticalHypotheses: II. Certain Theorems on Unbiased Critical Regionsof Type A; III. Unbiased Tests of Simple Stat. HypothesesSpecifying the Values of More than One UnknOlffi Parameter,"Statistical Research Memoirs, 2(1938), 25-57.
_____, "On the Use and Interpretation of Certain Test Criteriafor Purposes of Statistical Inference," Biometrika" 20(1928), 175240 and 263-294.
, "The Testing of Statistical Hypotheses in Relation to---p""r-o""'b-:abilities A Priori," Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 29(1933),
492-510.NOVick, Melvin R., "On Bayesian Logical Probability," Princeton,
New Jersey, Educational Testing Service, Res. Bul. 1964,
NOVick, Melvin R. and J. E. Grizzle, "A Bayesian Approach to theAnalysis of Data from Clinical Trials," JASA, 60(1965), 81-96.
Oliver, W. Donald, "A Re-examination of the Problem of Induction,"Journal of Philosophy, 29(1952), 769-780.
Pap, Arthur, The A Priori in Physical Theory, New York, Kings CrownPress, 1946.
Pascal, Blaise, Pensees, New York, Harper, 1962. (reprint).
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Pearson, E. S., "Statistical Concepts in Their Relation to Reality,"JRSS (B), 17(1955), 204-207.---- A reply to Fisher's attack on the decision theory
approach to statistical inference.
____-.".., "Bayes' Theorem, Examined in the Light of ExperimentalSampling," Biometrika, 17(1925), 388-442.
, "Some Thoughts on Statistical Inference," .MIS, 33(1962),--3"""94'----:-403·
Pearson, E. S. and C. J. Clopper, "The Use of Confidence or FiducialLimits Illustrated in the Case of a Binomial," Biometrika,26(1934) .
Perks, W., "Some Observations on Inverse Probability Including aNew Indifference Rule," J. Inst. Actu., 73(1947), 285-334.
Pinkham, R. S., "On a Fiducial Example of C. Stein," JRSS (B),28(1966), 53-54. ---
Pitman, E. J. G., "Statistics and Science," JASA, 52(1957), 322.An invited review article on Fisher's StatisticalMethods and Scientific Inference.
Plackett,(A) ,
R. L., "Current Trends in Statistical Inference," JRSS129(1966), 249-267.
An article arising out of an address to the-1965conference of the Royal Statistical Society. A goodsource for a brief sketch of recent developments.
Poincare, Henri, Science and Hypothesis, New York, Dover Publications,1952•
Polya, G., Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume I-Inductionand Analogy in Mathematics, Princeton, Princeton UniversityPress, 1954.
The first of two volumes dealing with nondeductivereasoning in mathematics. This volume supplies themore mathematical aspects of the work.
____~~.".., Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume II-Patternsof Plausible Inference, Princeton, Princeton University Press,1954.
In the author's words, this volume is "an inductiveinvestigation of induction."
, "Preliminary Remarks on a Logic of Plausible Inference,"-----D~i~a~l-ectica, 3(1949), 28-35·
Popper, Karl R., "Degree of Confirmation," British Journal for thePhilosophy of Science, 5(1954-55).
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Popper, Karl R., The Logic of Scientific Discovery, New York,Basic Books, 1959.
__,.""..--,._, "Probabilistic Independence and Corrobora.tion by ,Empirical Tests," British Journal for the Philos2Ph~ of Science,10(1960) .
Pratt, John W., "Bayesian Interpretation of Standard InferenceStatements," JRSS (B), 27(1965), 169-203.
A valuable djscussion follows this paper.
, Discussion of '~n the Foundations of Statistical---=--=--Inference," ~.ASA, 57 (1962), 314.
Pratt, J. w., H. Raiffa, and R. Schlaifer, "The Foundations ofDecision Under Uncertainty: An Elementary Exposition," JABA,59(1964), 353-375.
Gives rules for d.ecisions under uncertainty as derivedfrom principles of consistent behavior and scalingpreferences.
___~~_" Introduction to Statistical Decision TheorY, New York,McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Quenouille, M. H., The Fundamentals of Statistical Reasoning, London,Charles Griffin and Co., 1958.
Raiffa, H. and R. Schlaifer, Applied Statistical Decision Theory,Boston, Harvard University Press, 1961-
See review in~, 57(1962), 199.
Rajski, C., ''The Bayes Postulate and Entropy," ZastosowaniaMatematyki, 4(1958), 91-94.
___-:--::--_, "Comparing General Populations on the Basis of Bayes'Rule," Zastosowania Matemati1t--!z 1(1954), 330-341.
Ramsey, Frank P., The Foundations of Mathematics and Other LogicaJ.Essays, London, Kegan Paul, 1931 and Patterson, New Jersey,Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1960.
Contains "Truth and Probability" (1926) and "FurtherConsiderations" (1928).
___"':"':" ~:' ''Mr. Keynes on Probability," The Cambridge Maaazine,11(1922). ,
Rapoport, A., Strategy and Conscience, New York, 1964.
Reichenba.ch, Hans, "Are Phenomenal Reports Jibsolutely Certain?,"~ilosQPhicalReview, 61(1952), 147-159.
_____~~, erience and Prediction An Anal sis of the Foundationsand the Structure of Knowled e , Chicago, University of ChicagoPress, 1957.
The author attempts to give a foundation of logicaJ. empiricism.
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.. Reichenbach, Hans,' "On P!'obability and Induction," Fhilosophy~ of Science, 5(1938).
, "On the Justification of Induction," Journal of---=:-~-Philosophy, 37(1940), 97-103.
, Philosophic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Los Angeles,U':iversity of California Press, 1946.
___..,,-~, The Theory of Probability: An Inquiry into the Logical~Dd Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability, Berkeley,University of California Press, 1949.
A revised translation of the 1931~ German -edition.Defines probability in the "relative frequency" ''laywith considerable emphasis placed on the relationshipsbetween probability and induction.
Renyi, A., "On a Np.w Axiomatic Foundation of the Theory ofProbability," Proceedings of the Seventh International Congressof Mathematicians, Amsterdam, Groningen: E. P. Nordhoff,1957, 506-5°7.
, "On a New Axiomatic Theory of Probability," Acta--~M~a~t~h-ematica Acadamiae Scientiarum HUngaricae, 6(195~285-335.
Richter, Hans, "Zur Grundlegung der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, I,II, III, rv," Mathematische Annalen, 125(1952), 129-139;125(1953), 223-224, 335-343; 126(1953), 362-374.
Robbins, H. E., "An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics,"Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on MathematicalStatistics and Probability, 1956, 157-163.
, "The Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistical Decision---P=-r-o-:-ib-:-lems," AMS, 35(1964), 1-20.
, "A New Approach to a Classical Statistical Decision--...",...~.."..
Problem," Induction: Some Current Issues, Kyburg and Nagel(eds.), 1963.
, "Some Aspects of the Sequential Design of Experiments,lr---=-Bu~l~l-. Amer. Math. Soc., 58(1952), 527-535.
Roberts, Harry V., "Probabilistic Prediction," JASA, 60(1965), 50-62.
, "Statistical Dogma: One Response to a Challenge,"---Am-:--.~Stat., 20(1966), 4, 25-27.
Discusses one aspect of the problem of making meaningfulempirical comparisons between alternate methods ofdrawing conclusions. Se Bross (1961) for an explanationof the title.
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Robinson, Richard, 'Measurement and Statistics: Toward a Clarificationof the Theory of Permissible Statistics," Philos. of Science,32(1965), 229-243-
Hoy, A. D., "Some Notes on Pistimertic Inference," JRSS (B),22(1960), 338-347. ----
Russell, Bertraand, Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits, London,'George Allen and Unwin, 1948, and New York, Simon and Schuster, 1948.
Sacks', J., "Generalized Bayes Solutions in Estimation Problems," AMS,34(1963), 751-768. ---
Salmon, Wesley C., "On Vindicating Induction," Induction: SomeCurrent Issues, Kyburg and Nagel (eds.), 1963.
, "Regular Rules of Induction," Philosophical Review,--"""65""7"(1-:"956) .
, "The Status of Prior Probabilities in Statistical-----Explanation," Philos. of Science, 32(1965), 137-146.This article is followed by a discussion by H. E. Kyburgand an additional reply by Salmon.
Savage, Leonard J., Discussion of "On the Foundations of StatisticalInference," JASA, 57(1962), 307.
______, "Discussion of Session on Fiducial Probability," Bull.ISI, 40(1964), 2, 925-927.
_______, The Foundations of Statistics, New York, John Wiley andSons, 1954.
An excellent "first-source" text for anyone interested inthe foundations of statistics.
, "The Foundations of Statistics Reconsidered,"---'p""r-o-c-eedin s of the Fourth Berkele S osium on Math Stat. and
Probability, Berkeley, University of California Press, 19 1.
____--,-_, "La probabilita soggetiva nei problemi pratici dellastatistica," Rome, Induzione e Statistica, 1959.
, "Recent Tendencies in the Foundations of Statistics,"------Proceedings of the Eighth International COngress of Mathematicians,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1960, 540-544.
, The Subjective Basis of Statistical Practice, Ann Arbor,----U,...n~i-v-ersity of Michigan, 1961.
, "The Theory of Statistical Decision," JASA, 46(1951), 55 ..67·------A paper discussing Wald's Statistical Decrsron Functions
published just after Wald's death.
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Scheffe, Henry, The Analysi.s of Variance, New York, John Wiley andSons, 1959.
, "A Note on the Behrens-Fisher Problem," AMS, 15(1944)---'-4--30"'---"-432.
Schlaifer, Robert, Introduction to Statistics for Business Decisions,New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961.
Sets forth the classical Neyman-Pearson theory and attemptsto show how this is complimented by recent work in variousapproaches to statistical inference. Closely related tothe author's Probability and Statistics for BusinessDecisions.
____--, Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions, NewYork, McGraw-Hill, 1959.
Uses the Bayesian approach for an elementary exposition ofdecision making under uncertainty.
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Concerns the testing of the strength of a person'sbelief by finding at what odds he is prepared tobet on them.
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Smullyan, Arthur,"The Concept of Empirical Knowledge," Philosophical UllReview, 65(1956), 362-370.
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See the discussion following this article.
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Discusses an experiment which indicates a modest gain byBayesian over sampling theory methods.
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Tiao, George C. and W, y, Tan,. "Bay-esiJm Analy'sis of' Random-EffectModels in the Analysis of Variance,it Biometrika, 52(1965),37-53, and 53(1966), 477--495.
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The author attempts to relate a number of conceptsby means of what the author calls "induced probabilities."
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Wald, Abraham, On the Principles of statistical Inference, NotreDame, Indiana, 1942.
Gives a brief general review of the problem of statisticalinference. A good source for one who wants a quick viewof the overall field of statistical inference.
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A memorial to A. Waldo Contains a complete bibliography.
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A different approach than Fisher's to an aspect ofFiducial inference.
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An examination of various types of inductive argumentsconsidered with respect to their logical correctness.
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Yates, F., "An Apparent Inconsistency Arising From Tests of SignificanceBased on Fiducial Distributions of Unknown Parameters, ,IIProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 35(1939),579-591.
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Zellner, Arnold, IIBayesian Inference and Simultaneous EquationModels, II Chicago, (multilithed), University of Chicago, 1965.
An experimental test of Bayesian vs. "orthodox" methods.
