Measurement of Statistical Evidence: Picking Up Where Hacking and Others Left Off.

Hacking's Law of Likelihood says--paraphrasing--that data support hypothesis H1 over hypothesis H2 whenever the likelihood ratio (LR) for H1 over H exceeds 1. But Hacking later noted a seemingly fatal flaw in the LR itself: it cannot be interpreted as the degree of "evidential significance" across a...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 84; no. 5; pp. 853 - 866
Main Author:	Vieland, Veronica J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2017
Subjects:	Computer hacking Hypothesis Philosophers Likelihood ratio tests Evidentialism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost