The application of robust Bayesian analysis to hypothesis testing and Occam's Razor

DOI10.1007/BF02589047MaRDI QIDQ3598239zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors William H. Jefferys, James O. Berger

Publication date 3 February 2009

Published in Journal of the Italian Statistical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02589047

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factorMercury's perihilionMonte-Carlo integrationOccam's razorP-value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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