Herman Rubin wrote: > > The two papers of Bayes were published in the 1760s. > Laplace did take it up. The problem with using it > in the early 19th century was the almost insistence > on there being "objective" priors; these do not exist, > and modern attempts to produce such necessarily fail. > > Because of this, and the belief that science can proceed > purely objectively, Bayesian methods dropped out of use, > and remained so until mathematical arguments, starting > in the 1940s, showed the need for them. > Note that "Breakthroughs in Statistics" Vol 1 has a paper by de Finetti from 1937 (originally in French). The intro to this says that it "marks the beginning of the re-birth of Bayesian statistics ...".
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