David J. T. Sumpter

Coherence, charity and triangulation in statistical modelling

Bayesian statistics rests on a few familiar distinctions: frequentist vs. Bayesian, objective versus subjective probability, a model versus the data it is fitted to, a prior versus a posterior. Here, I use Donald Davidson's"third dogma of empiricism"to critique such distinctions in terms of scheme/content dualisms. Wit...