The whetstone and the alum block: balanced objective Bayesian comparison of nested models for discrete data

DOI10.1214/13-STS433zbMath1331.62131arXiv1310.0661OpenAlexW1992313784WikidataQ58296056 ScholiaQ58296056MaRDI QIDQ5965032

Jonathan J. Forster, Guido Consonni, Luca La Rocca

Publication date: 2 March 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0661

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factormodel choiceintrinsic priormoment priornonlocal priorOckham's razortraining sample size

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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Uses Software

• mcmc

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