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I think to say the book has a heavy focus on frequentist statistics is a little misleading. Jaynes discusses a lot of frequentist methods but the emphasis is on

by mreid 17y ago

I think to say the book has a heavy focus on frequentist statistics is a little misleading. Jaynes discusses a lot of frequentist methods but the emphasis is on doing so from a very Bayesian point of view.

yaroslavvb 17y ago
He uses Bayesian methods in some cases, and non-Bayesian method in others. For instance on page 1412 he describes a problem for which Bayesian methods are "not appropriate." http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc14g.ps http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc14g.ps This is a bit of an anathema to purist Bayesians like Radford Neal who say that Jaynes Maximum Entropy method is not consistent with Bayesian methods and that it "doesn't make any sense" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat.consult/msg/2cf57ceb8ec46e0f?dmode=source http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat.consult/msg/2cf57ceb...