Evaluation of statistical hypotheses using information transmitted

Philosophy of Science 37 (2):279-294 (1970)
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The main argument of this paper is that an evaluation of the overall explanatory power of a theory is less problematic and more relevant as an assessment of the state of knowledge than evaluation of statistical explanations of single occurrences in terms of likelihoods that are assigned to explananda

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