Counterexamples to a likelihood theory of evidence

Minds and Machines

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-338

  Forster, Malcolm R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry of cause and effect; Bayesianism; Curve fitting; Evidence; Likelihoodism; Regression; The law of likelihood; The likelihood principle

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURVE FITTING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ASYMMETRY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT; BAYESIANISM; LIKELIHOODISM; THE LAW OF LIKELIHOOD; THE LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 33751176237     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-006-9038-y     Document Type: Article

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