Bayes and discovery: Objective bayesian hypothesis testing

Proceedings of the PHYSTAT 2011 Workshop on Statistical Issues Related to Discovery Claims in Search Experiments and Unfolding

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-36

  Bernardo, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS; BAYESIAN SOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOSS FUNCTIONS; REFERENCE PRIOR;

EXPERIMENTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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