Reconciling classical and prior predictive p-values in the two-sided location parameter testing problem

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 575-583

  De La Horra, Julián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classes of priors; Classical p value; Prior predictive p value; Reconciliation

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

CLASSES OF PRIORS; CLASSICAL P-VALUE; PRIOR PREDICTIVE P-VALUE; RECONCILIATION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 17044437105     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200052129     Document Type: Article

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