The expected demise of the Bayes factor

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2015.08.002zbMATH Open1357.62127arXiv1506.08292OpenAlexW1850669390MaRDI QIDQ296922FDOQ296922

Authors: Christian Robert 

Publication date: 24 June 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This note is a discussion commenting on the paper by Ly et al. on "Harold Jeffreys's Default Bayes Factor Hypothesis Tests: Explanation, Extension, and Application in Psychology" and on the perceived shortcomings of the classical Bayesian approach to testing, while reporting on an alternative approach advanced by Kamary, Mengersen, Robert and Rousseau (2014. arxiv:1412.2044) as a solution to this quintessential inference problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08292

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferenceconsistencyBayes factordecision theorymixtures of distributionsevidenceloss functiontesting of hypotheses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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