An explanatory rationale for priors sharpened into Occam's razors

DOI10.1214/19-BA1189zbMath1480.62009MaRDI QIDQ2057362

David R. Bickel

Publication date: 6 December 2021

Published in: Bayesian Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba/1575082845

zbMATH Keywords

objective BayesOckham's razorexplanatory coherencefoundations of Bayesian statisticsinformative prior distributionobjective prior distributionsharpened prior distributionsimplicity postulate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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