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Lindley's paradox: a standalone construct

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Bayesian statistics

a case where a frequentist test rejects a null hypothesis while a Bayesian analysis of the same data favors it.

In Bayesian statistics, Lindley's paradox refers to a case where a frequentist test rejects a null hypothesis while a Bayesian analysis of the same data favors it. This meaning comes from Lindley (1957) in Biometrika.[1]

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References

Lindley, D. V. (1957). A Statistical Paradox. Biometrika, 44(1-2), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/44.1-2.187

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