Bayes, Jeffreys, Prior Distributions and the Philosophy of Statistics

Discussion of "Harold Jeffreys's Theory of Probability revisited," by Christian Robert, Nicolas Chopin, and Judith Rousseau, for Statistical Science [arXiv:0804.3173]

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