The expected demise of the Bayes factor

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2015.08.002zbMath1357.62127arXiv1506.08292OpenAlexW1850669390MaRDI QIDQ296922

F. Blanchet-Sadri, M. Dambrine

Publication date: 24 June 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08292

zbMATH Keywords

evidencedecision theoryconsistencyBayes factorloss functionmixtures of distributionsBayesian inferencetesting of hypotheses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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