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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 [...]