English

Introducing doubt in Bayesian model comparison

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2008-11-18 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

There are things we know, things we know we don't know, and then there are things we don't know we don't know. In this paper we address the latter two issues in a Bayesian framework, introducing the notion of doubt to quantify the degree of (dis)belief in a model given observational data in the absence of explicit alternative models. We demonstrate how a properly calibrated doubt can lead to model discovery when the true model is unknown.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0811.2415,
  title  = {Introducing doubt in Bayesian model comparison},
  author = {Glenn D Starkman and Roberto Trotta and Pascal M Vaudrevange},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2415},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures

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