Quantifying the Evidence About Science Hypotheses

Abstract

The ability to simply rank science hypotheses and their models is a major advance over what can be done using null hypothesis tests. However, much more can be done, all under the framework of "strength of evidence," for hypotheses in the a priori candidate set. Such evidence is exactly what Platt (1964) wanted in his well-known paper on strong inference. I begin by describing four new evidential quantities.