“Two Dogmas of Strong Objective Bayesianism”

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-03-27

Summary:

Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and Gordon Brittan write: We introduce a distinction, unnoticed in the literature, between four varieties of objective Bayesianism. What we call ‘strong objective Bayesianism’ is characterized by two claims, that all scientific inference is ‘logical’ and that, given the same background information two agents will ascribe a unique probability to their priors. We [...]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2013/03/27/two-dogmas-of-strong-objective-bayesianism/

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Andrew

Date tagged:

03/27/2013, 12:00

Date published:

03/27/2013, 11:17