PalaeoBayes: bayesian hypothesis testing for paleobiologists. – computer software [online] : inspired by the books of the late Jaynes, Bolstad, and Hammer&Harper, this collection of C functions and sample programs aims to assist those paleobiologists who recognised the worth of Bayesian way of extending logic to reasoning with uncertainty

0370797 - GLÚ 2012 RIV CZ eng L4 - Software
Čejchan, Petr
PalaeoBayes: bayesian hypothesis testing for paleobiologists. – computer software [online] : inspired by the books of the late Jaynes, Bolstad, and Hammer&Harper, this collection of C functions and sample programs aims to assist those paleobiologists who recognised the worth of Bayesian way of extending logic to reasoning with uncertainty.
Internal code: ARL0370797 ; 2011
Technical parameters: open acces software
Economic parameters: open acces software pro vědecký výzkum
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA300130702
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30130516
Keywords : posterior distribution * Normal mean * Binomial proportion * Poisson rate * Bayesian probability * computer software
Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy
https://sourceforge.net/projects/palaeobayes/

It was repeatedly shown (Jeffreys, 1946; Jaynes, 1994, 2003; Bolstad, 2007, Aitkin, 2010, Link & Harper, 2010; Kruschke, 2011, and elsewhere) that the frequentist approach to inference has serious flaws, is not able to incorporate prior knowledge, and does not answer the questions about the hidden model parameter given the observed data, but rather assesses the probability of data coming from the model with certain value of parameter. The Bayes' Theorem offers a clean solution to arbitrarily complex models, and was shown being a proper extension of (binary) logic in presence of uncertainty (Jaynes, 1994). Inspired by the books of the late Jaynes, Bolstad, and Hammer & Harper, this collection of C functions and sample programs aims to assist those paleobiologists who recognised the worth of Bayesian way of extending logic to reasoning with uncertainty. The library is open-source. License is GPL-3.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0204490