Unified conditional frequentist and Bayesian testing of composite hypotheses

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 193-210

  Dass, Sarat C ^a   Berger, James O ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Conditional error probabilities; Default prior distributions; Group invariance; Nested hypotheses; Posterior probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038784364     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00326     Document Type: Article

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