The variety-of-evidence thesis: a Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1607-5MaRDI QIDQ2053363zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Claveau, Olivier Grenier

Publication date 29 November 2021

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14086/1/VoE_thesis_Synthese.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

robustnesstriangulationBayesian epistemologyevidence amalgamationevidence independenceevidence variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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• plot3D
• gRain
• data.table

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