On the use of Non-Local Prior Densities in Bayesian Hypothesis Tests

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00730.xzbMath1411.62019OpenAlexW2053675401MaRDI QIDQ4632627

Valen E. Johnson, David Rossell

Publication date: 30 April 2019

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00730.x

zbMATH Keywords

intrinsic Bayes factorintrinsic priorfractional Bayes factorinverse moment density functionmoment density functionobjective Bayes analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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