Radical and Not-So-Radical Principles and Practices: Discussion of Meng✩
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2023), pp. 35–38
Pub. online: 25 October 2022
Type: Methodology Article
Open Access
Open Access
Area: Statistical Methodology
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Main article: https://doi.org/10.51387/22-NEJSDS6.
Accepted
7 September 2022
7 September 2022
Published
25 October 2022
25 October 2022
Abstract
We highlight points of agreement between Meng’s suggested principles and those proposed in our 2019 editorial in The American Statistician. We also discuss some questions that arise in the application of Meng’s principles in practice.
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