Significance Tests, Belief Calculi, and Burden of Proof in Legal and Scientific Discourse
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We review the definition of the Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST), and summarize its main statistical and epistemological characteristics. We review also the Abstract Belief Calculus (ABC) of Derwiche and Ginsberg, and use it to analyze the FBST’s value of evidence. This analysis helps us understand the FBST properties, specially its consistency with the Onus Probandi principle, and why it overcomes several deficiencies of well known sharp hypothesis testing theories, both in frequentist and standard Bayesian Statistics.
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