Harold Jeffreys's \textit{Theory of probability} revisited

DOI10.1214/09-STS284zbMath1328.62012arXiv0804.3173MaRDI QIDQ903267

Nicolas Chopin, Judith Rousseau, Christian P. Robert Robert

Publication date: 5 January 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3173

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factornoninformative priorgoodness of fittests\(p\)-valuesKullback divergence\(\sigma\)-finite measureJeffreys's priorBayesian foundations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03)

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