The ubiquitous Laplacian assumption: Reply to Lee and Wagenmakers (2005)

Psychological Review

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 669-674

  Trafimow, David ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes's theorem; Hypothesis testing; Laplace; Principle of indifference; Transformational invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844459830     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.3.669     Document Type: Review

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