X on JLP

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-07

Summary:

Christian Robert writes on the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox. I have nothing to add to this beyond my recent comments: To me, the Lindley paradox falls apart because of its noninformative prior distribution on the parameter of interest. If you really think there’s a high probability the parameter is nearly exactly zero, I don’t see the point [...]

Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/07/x-on-jlp/

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Statistics and Visualization » Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Tags:

bayesian statistics

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

04/07/2013, 13:28

Date published:

04/07/2013, 09:52