Bayes factors: What they are and what they are not

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-122

  Lavine, Michael ^a   Schervish, Mark J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measure of support; P values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033460110     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474443     Document Type: Article

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