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On the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox

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Date
2014
Link to item file
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5973v3
Dewey
Probabilités et mathématiques appliquées
Sujet
Bayesian inference; Testing statistical hypotheses; Type I error; significance level; p-value
Journal issue
Philosophy of Science
Volume
81
Number
2
Publication date
2014
Article pages
216-232
Publisher
Philosophy of Science Association
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675729
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/14937
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Author
Robert, Christian P.
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
This article discusses the dual interpretation of the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox associated with Bayesian posterior probabilities and Bayes factors, both as a differentiation between frequentist and Bayesian statistics and as a pointer to the difficulty of using improper priors while testing. I stress the considerable impact of this paradox on the foundations of both classical and Bayesian statistics. While assessing existing resolutions of the paradox, I focus on a critical viewpoint of the paradox discussed by Spanos in Philosophy of Science.

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