The Weighted Likelihood Ratio, Linear Hypotheses on Normal Location Parameters

Abstract

Raiffa and Schlaifer's theory of conjugate prior distributions is here applied to Jeffrey's theory of tests for a sharp hypothesis, for simple normal sampling, for model I analysis of variance, and for univariate and multivariate Behrens-Fisher probelms. Leonard J. Savage's Bayesianization of Jeffrey's theory is given with new generalizations. A new conjugate prior family for normal sampling which allows prior independence of unknown mena and variance is given.