Lower bounds on Bayes factors for multinomial distributions, with application to chi-squared tests of fit

DOI10.1214/aos/1176347750zbMath0712.62027OpenAlexW2058440099MaRDI QIDQ749086

James O. Berger, Mohan Delampady

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347750

zbMATH Keywords

tablesconjugate priorsexact boundsconditional densitiesasymptotic lower boundschi-square tests of fitconjugate densitiesLower bounds on Bayes factorsmultinomial tests of point null hypothesesP-valuespoint null hypothesestransformed unimodal densitiesunimodal spherically symmetric densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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