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I agree that Gelman's eclecticism makes sense since a pure Bayesian approach is difficult in practice.

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Gelman's comment `Bayesian inference is a coherent mathematical theory but I don't trust it in scientific applications' is reasonable if it is translated to mean, `the pure subjective Bayesian approach is coherent but difficult to implement and the mongrel surrogate used in practice has many weaknesses'.

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This page is a summary of: Comment on Article by Gelman, Bayesian Analysis, January 2008, Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
DOI: 10.1214/08-ba318c.
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