In this paper we develop a general framework of Bayesian influence analysis for assessing various perturbation schemes to the data, the prior and the sampling distribution for a class of statistical ...

This paper introduces the concept of Bayes risk consistency for classification procedures. This notion allows us to examine asymptotic properties of classification procedures which are based on ...

It turns out that the old adage about statistics and damned lies wasn’t a joke. Sticks and stones may be bonebreakers, and words inflict no (physical) pain, but numbers can kill. In 2004, for instance ...