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Unified frequentist and Bayesian testing of a precise hypothesis. With comments by Dennis V. Lindley, Thomas A. Louis and David Hinkley and a rejoinder by the authors. (English) Zbl 0955.62527


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62A01 Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics
62F15 Bayesian inference
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