Rejoinder: Let’s Be Imprecise in Order to Be Precise (About What We Don’t Know)

Abstract

Preparing a rejoinder is a typically rewarding, sometimes depressing, and occasionally frustrating experience. The rewarding part is self-evident, and the depression sets in when a discussant has much deeper and crisper insights about the authors’ thesis than authors themselves. Frustrations arise when the authors thought they made some points crystal clear, but the reflections from the discussants show a very different picture. We are deeply grateful to the editors of Statistical Science and the discussants for providing us an opportunity to maximize the first, sample the second, and minimize the third.