The Renegade Subjectivist: Jose Bernardo's Objective Bayesianism

Jan Sprenger ()
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Jan Sprenger: Tilburg University

Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, vol. 3, issue 50

Abstract: This article motivates and discusses JosE Bernardo's attempt to reconcile the subjective Bayesian framework with a need for objective scientific inference, leading to a special kind of objective Bayesianism, namely reference Bayesianism. We elucidate principal ideas and foundational implications of Bernardo's approach, with particular attention to the classical problem of testing a precise null hypothesis against an unspecified alternative.

Keywords: philosophy of statistics; statistical inference; Bayesian inference; reference Bayesianism; hypothesis testing; prior distributions; parameter estimation; loss functions; invariance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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