Two simple examples for understanding posterior p-values whose distributions are far from unform

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2595-2602

  Gelman, Andrew ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Model checking; P value; Posterior predictive check; U value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892397677     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-EJS854     Document Type: Article

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