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The full title is APPLIED BAYESIAN AND CLASSICAL INFERENCE: THE CASE OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, being the second edition of Inference and Disputed Authorship: the Federalist.This is one of the seminal works in what has come to be called Attribution Theory.
Fred Mosteller & Dave Wallace sort out the aurhorship of the disputed Federalist papers using a variety of Bayesian statistical methods--the first time this sort of inquiry had been pursued with modern mathematical rigor.
303 pp., cloth with plastic cover, as new copy. Springer Verlag 1984. Out of print, and highly sought after.
