Leonard Jimmie Savage
Leonard Jimmie Savage · Science & Medicine
Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
1917, Detroit, Michigan, USA — 1971, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
United States
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Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician who, in 'The Foundations of Statistics' (1954), gave the axiomatic basis for subjective (Bayesian) probability and decision theory, showing how rational agents should act under uncertainty. He was born into a Jewish family in Michigan.
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Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
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