A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification

DOI10.1086/375475zbMath1222.00015OpenAlexW2175167598MaRDI QIDQ3093490

Wayne C. Myrvold

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/375475

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Physics (00A79)

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