Two simple examples for understanding posterior \(p\)-values whose distributions are far from unform

DOI10.1214/13-EJS854zbMath1294.62049OpenAlexW2049588913MaRDI QIDQ375219

Andrew Gelman

Publication date: 29 October 2013

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejs/1382448225

zbMATH Keywords

model checking\(p\)-valueBayesian inference\(u\)-valueposterior predictive check

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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Uses Software

• BayesDA

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