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Confirmation and the ordinal equivalence thesis by Vassend, Olav B.

“…According to a widespread but implicit thesis in Bayesian confirmation theory, two confirmation measures are considered equivalent if they are ordinally…”
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COMMENT: THE INFERENTIAL INFORMATION CRITERION FROM A BAYESIAN POINT OF VIEW by Vassend, Olav B.

“…As Michael Schultz notes in his very interesting paper (this volume, pp. 52–87), standard model selection criteria, such as the Akaike information criterion…”
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Goals and the Informativeness of Prior Probabilities by Vassend, Olav B.

“…I argue that information is a goal-relative concept for Bayesians. More precisely, I argue that how much information (or confirmation) is provided by a piece…”
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Confirmation Measures and Sensitivity by Vassend, Olav B.

“…Stanley Stevens draws a useful distinction among ordinal scales, interval scales, and ratio scales. Most recent discussions of confirmation measures have…”
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Foundations of Bayesian Instrumentalism by Vassend, Olav B

“…According to Bayesian epistemologists and statisticians, plausibility judgments are representable by real numbers, and these numbers ought, rationally, to obey…”
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