Bertrand Clarke's contribution to the Discussion of ‘Martingale Posterior Distributions’ by Fong, Holmes and Walker
Bertrand Clarke 对《鞅后验分布》的讨论
To see the effect of the paper on statistical practice, consider the following hypothetical dialogue between a Quantitative Scientist (QS) and a Predictive Statistician (PS). QS: I’ve been thinking about the data generating mechanism and what we can safely assume pre-experimentally. PS: Actually, I’m more interested in what you think your n+1 data point would be. If you were going to predict your n+1 measurement, how would you do it? QS: I’d guess what the true model is and…