An explanatory rationale for priors sharpened into Occam's razors
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instance of: scholarly article
title: An explanatory rationale for priors sharpened into Occam's razors
zbMATH Open document ID: 1480.62009
DOI: 10.1214/19-BA1189
author: David R. Bickel
published in: Bayesian Analysis
publication date: 2021-12-06T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba/1575082845
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62A01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62C10
zbMATH DE Number: 7439118
zbMATH Keywords: explanatory coherence
zbMATH Keywords: foundations of Bayesian statistics
zbMATH Keywords: informative prior distribution
zbMATH Keywords: objective Bayes
zbMATH Keywords: objective prior distribution
zbMATH Keywords: Ockham's razor
zbMATH Keywords: simplicity postulate
zbMATH Keywords: sharpened prior distribution
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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