Optimality of the posterior predictive p-value based on the posterior. Odds

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 181-192

  de la Horra, Julian ^a   Rodriguez Bernal, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayes rule; P value; Posterior odds; Posterior predictive p value; Reference prior distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS;

BAYES RULE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OPTIMALITY; P-VALUES; POSTERIOR ODDS; REFERENCE PRIOR; THOMPSON;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0042961265     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920008832476     Document Type: Article

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