At a recent conference in Innsbruck, held in memory of Bruno De Finetti, attention focused on one of his aphorisms: analysts should think about things. This paper seeks to do precisely that in the context of public examinations in England and Wales. It attempts to think about those quantitative things that are done to marks in the process of assessing candidate scripts. Public examinations are central to our education system: hundreds of thousands of candidates enter them every year. In assessing...
The comments made by various authors to Prof. French's article Statistical and decision theoretic aspects of examination assessment (Trabajos de Estadística, vol. 4, nr. 1, 1989) were not included in the published paper. In order to complete the article, such comments are published now and the author's answer to them is printed again.
Discussion on the papers by Mouchart, Michel and Simar, Léopold, Least squares approximation in Bayesian analysis and by Lindley, Dennis V., Approximate Bayesian methods, both of them part of a round table on Approximations held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
Discussion on the papers by Leonard, Tom, The roles of inductive modelling and coherence in Bayesian statistics and by Novick, Melvin R., Dekeyrel, D.F. and Chuang, D.T., Local and regional coherence utility assessment procedures, both of them part of a round table on Coherence of models and utilities held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
Discussion on the papers by DeGroot, Morris H., Improving predictive distributions and by Press, S. James, Bayesian inference in group judgement formulation and decision making using qualitative controlled feedback, both of them part of a round table on Improving judgements using feedback held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
Discussion on the papers by Girón, F. J. and Ríos, S., Quasi-Bayesian behaviour: a more realistic approach to dicision making? and by Hill, B. M., On finite additivity, non-conglomerability and statistical paradoxes, both of them part of a round table on Foundations of Subjective Probability and Decision Making held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
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