Download or read book Data Analysis and Approximate Models written by Patrick Laurie Davies and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Detailed Account of Statistical Analysis That Treats Models as ApproximationsThe idea of truth plays a role in both Bayesian and frequentist statistics. The Bayesian concept of coherence is based on the fact that two different models or parameter values cannot both be true. Frequentist statistics is formulated as the problem of estimating