History and nature of the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox

DOI10.1007/s00407-022-00298-3MaRDI QIDQ2678711

Alexander Ly, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers

Publication date: 24 January 2023

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10191

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

62-03: History of statistics

Uses Software

• CRAN
• BayesFactor

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