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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 193 - 205
On Evolution of Statistical Inference
Authors
DAS Fraser*, dfraser@utstat.toronto.edu
*D A S Fraser, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
June 2, 2018
Received 11 February 2018, Accepted 1 March 2018, Available Online 30 June 2018.
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The foundations of statistics have evolved over many centuries, perhaps millennia, with major paradigm shifts of the form described in Kuhn (1962). We briefly consider these important transitions and how they have led to major shifts in the foundations of statistical inference. Clearly there is no conventional mathematical or axiomatic basis. But there is a progressive clarification in the processes of statistical inference so that current theory can now coherently and definitively handle a wide range of inference problems.
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TY - JOUR AU - DAS Fraser PY - 2018 DA - 2018/06/30 TI - On Evolution of Statistical Inference JO - Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications SP - 193 EP - 205 VL - 17 IS - 2 SN - 2214-1766 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jsta.2018.17.2.1 DO - 10.2991/jsta.2018.17.2.1 ID - Fraser2018 ER -