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Who Should Be Afraid of the Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox?

The article revisits the large n (sample size) problem as it relates to the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox to compare the frequentist, Bayesian, and likelihoodist approaches to inference and evidence. It is argued that what is fallacious is to interpret a rejection of H as providing the same evidence for...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 73 - 94
Main Author: Spanos, Aris
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Jan2013
Subjects:
Paradox
Bayesian analysis
Logical fallacies
Reasoning
Logic
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