Foundations of statistical inference : proceedings of the Shoresh Conference 2000
Yoel Haitovsky, Hans Rudolf Lerche, Ya’acov Ritov · 2003
The following is a quotation from the Program and Abstract booklet of the conference. “Over the past several decades, the field of statistics has seen tremendous growth and development in theory and methodology. At the same time, the advent of computers has facilitated the use of modern statistics in all branches of science, making statistics even more interdisciplinary than in the past; statistics, thus, has become strongly rooted in all empirical research in the medical, social, and engineering sciences. The abundance of computer programs and the variety of methods available to users brought to light the critical issues of choosing models and, given a data set, the methods most suitable for its analysis. Mathematical statisticians have devoted a great deal of effort to studying the appropriateness of models for various types of data, and defining the conditions under which a particular method work.” In 1985 an international conference with a similar title ⋆ was held in Israel. It provided a platform for a formal debate between the two main schools of thought in Statistics, the Bayesian, and the Frequentists. Since that time