Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLVIII The Bayesian contributions of Ernest Lhoste
概率与统计史研究第四十八篇:Ernest Lhoste 的贝叶斯贡献
The contributions of Ernest Lhoste are largely unknown outside France, and even within that country are not well known. His important contributions were in the two areas of the development of prior distributions that represent little or no information, and a sophisticated posterior analysis for normal and binomial populations. His results are similar to those of Haldane (1948) and Jeffreys (1961), but they appeared much earlier, in 1923. He gave a great deal of thought to…