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When the author says "objective" they are referring to a prior that gives equal weight to values within the null hypothesis and to those without (along with a few other things: symmetric and non-increasing away from the mean). I appreciate this approach, and think there's much to commend it, but think that that's a key thing to be aware of (because any use of "objective" when referring to priors is, shall we say, dubious).


Yes, it would be nice to know how things change for different weightings of the null and alternative priors.




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