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On resolving the Savage-Dickey paradox

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arxiv 0910.1452 v6 pith:6U3KQI64 submitted 2009-10-08 math.ST math.PRstat.COstat.TH

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The Savage-Dickey ratio is known as a specialised representation of the Bayes factor (O'Hagan and Forster, 2004) that allows for a functional plugging approximation of this quantity. We demonstrate here that the Savage-Dickey representation is in fact a generic representation of the Bayes factor that relies on specific measure-theoretic versions of the densities involved in the ratio, instead of a special identity imposing the above constraints on the prior distributions. We completely clarify the measure-theoretic foundations of the representation as well as the generalisation of Verdinelli and Wasserman (1995) and propose a comparison of this new approximation with their version, as well as with bridge sampling and Chib's approaches.

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