Statistical Decision Functions

Wald, A. (1950). Statistical Decision Functions. Wiley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1950

Link

https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1950-wald-statisticaldecisionfunctions.pdf

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statistics_experimental_design

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Primes

• Statistical Inference
  • It separates what we see (the sample) from what we want to know (the population), and names the probabilistic reasoning that bridges them, a formalization Wald (1950) embedded in a unifying decision-theoretic framework.

Domain-specific

• Loss Function
  • Combining loss with uncertainty produces a risk: expectation over data for a decision rule, posterior expected loss in Bayesian analysis, or empirical average in learning.

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