• DocumentCode
    1641601
  • Title

    The Lindley paradox, information and generalized functions

  • Author

    Breitung, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Civil Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
  • fYear
    1995
  • Firstpage
    720
  • Lastpage
    723
  • Abstract
    In testing a sharp point hypothesis there is a difference between frequentist and Bayesian results. Even for sample sizes increasing to infinity, Bayesian methods accept the point null hypothesis for values where the frequentist method leads to rejection. This is called the Lindley paradox. Here it is attempted to explain this. The reason appears to be not a specific feature of Bayesian methods, but a misuse of the theorem of Bayes
  • Keywords
    Bayes methods; probability; Bayesian results; Lindley paradox; generalized functions; information; point hypothesis; sharp point hypothesis; Bayesian methods; Civil engineering; H infinity control; Probability; Random variables; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, 1995, and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. Proceedings of ISUMA - NAFIPS '95., Third International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    College Park, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7126-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISUMA.1995.527783
  • Filename
    527783