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Re:Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing by elmomle on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:29AM (#41326410)
When the author says "objective" they are referring to a prior that gives equal weight to values within the null hypothesis and to those without (along with a few other things: symmetric and non-increasing away from the mean). I appreciate this approach, and think there's much to commend it, but think that that's a key thing to be aware of (because any use of "objective" when referring to priors is, shall we say, dubious).
Re:Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing by vcdimension on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:48AM (#41326647)
Yes, it would be nice to know how things change for different weightings of the null and alternative priors.