Predictive Inference

by Geisser; Seymour

• ISBN13: 9780412034718
• ISBN10: 0412034719
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall/

Summary

The author's research has been directed towards inference involving observables rather than parameters. In this book, he brings together his views on predictive or observable inference and its advantages over parametric inference. While the book discusses a variety of approaches to prediction including those based on parametric, nonparametric, and nonstochastic statistical models, it is devoted mainly to predictive applications of the Bayesian approach. It not only substitutes predictive analyses for parametric analyses, but it also presents predictive analyses that have no real parametric analogues. It demonstrates that predictive inference can be a critical component of even strict parametric inference when dealing with interim analyses. This approach to predictive inference will be of interest to statisticians, psychologists, econometricians, and sociologists.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Non-Bayesian predictive approaches	p. 6
Bayesian prediction	p. 46
Selecting a statistical model and predicting	p. 88
Problems of comparison and allocation	p. 118
Perturbation analysis	p. 129
Process control and optimization	p. 154
Screening tests for detecting a characteristic	p. 169
Multivariate normal prediction	p. 191
Interim analysis and sampling curtailment	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 252
Author Index	p. 259
Subject Index	p. 261
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