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As their name implies predictive distributions are designed primarily to play a predictive role in statistical applications but they also have a role in a number of other applications, particularly when modelling is of a complex nature. The purpose of this paper is to review the state of the art, first recalling the basic structure of the prediction problem, then highlighting more recent research developments, and discussing in some detail complex modelling with predictive distributions.
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Aitchison, J. (1981). Statistical Predictive Distributions. In: Taillie, C., Patil, G.P., Baldessari, B.A. (eds) Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8549-0_1
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