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Incremental Confirmation

Incremental Confirmation is a probabilistic relation in confirmation theory whereby a piece of evidence confirms a hypothesis to the extent that it increases the conditional probability of the hypothesis relative to its prior probability, without requiring the hypothesis to be rendered highly probable.

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2017–2026

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STUDIES IN BAYESIAN CONFIRMATION THEORY

Branden Fitelson · 2001 · 137 citations

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Climate Models, Calibration, and Confirmation

Katie Steele, Charlotte Werndl · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2013 · 58 citations · Full text

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Focused Correlation and Confirmation

Gregory Wheeler · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2009 · 29 citations

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What confidence should we have in <scp>GRADE</scp>?

Mathew Mercuri, Brian S. Baigrie · Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice · 2018 · 28 citations

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“For unto every one that hath shall be given”. Matthew properties for incremental confirmation

Roberto Festa · Synthese · 2009 · 26 citations

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Authors

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  1. RF
    Roberto Festa

    University of Genoa, Italy

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  2. GW
    Gregory Wheeler

    Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

    2 publications · 42 citations

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  3. MS
    Maximilian Schlosshauer

    University of Portland, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. MM
    Mathew Mercuri

    McMaster University, Canada

    1 publications · 28 citations

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  5. BF
    Branden Fitelson

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    1 publications · 137 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    Lisbon, Portugal

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    42 citations

  2. University of Trieste

    Trieste, Italy

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    48 citations

  3. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  4. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  5. University of Johannesburg

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  6. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    116 citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    56 citations

  8. Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    56 citations

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  1. Philosophy of Science

    3 publications · 44 citations

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  3. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

    1 publications · 28 citations

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  4. Synthese

    1 publications · 26 citations

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