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  2. From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  4. Subject: Re: Books On The Foundations Of Statistics?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan11.090129.616@hnrc.tufts.edu>
  6. Date: 11 Jan 93 14:01:28 GMT
  7. References: <9300819.12065@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1993Jan8.195334.489@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan9.164835.10920@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8. Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University
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  11. The "foundations" of statistics is a broad topic (no pun intended) and can
  12. mean different things to different people.  If you'd like a quick overview/
  13. comparison of different schools of statistical inference, you might try
  14. Barnett's Comparative Statistical Inference (Wiley).  If your interest is
  15. more in the area of probability, try Kyburg and Smokler (eds) Studies in
  16. Subjective Probability (Wiley, sold to Krieger).
  17.