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Was the loss function a mistake?

28 August 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Laplace’s “introduction of a loss function proved to be a serious mistake, which came to hamper the development of an objective theory of statistical inference to the present day” (Hald, 2007, pp. 3-4).

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