Reconciling Bayesian and frequentist evidence in the one-sided scale parameter testing problem

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1123-1138

  Micheas, Athanasios C ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian p values; Posterior distribution; Predictive distribution; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FREQUENTIST METHODS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 34247583347     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601076610     Document Type: Article

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