  We compute the evidence in favour of two models, one based on field-aligned
thermal conduction alone and another that includes thermal misbalance as well,
in explaining the damping of slow magneto-acoustic waves in hot coronal loops.
Our analysis is based on the computation of the marginal likelihood and the
Bayes factor for the two damping models. We quantify their merit in explaining
the apparent relationship between slow mode periods and damping times, measured
with SOHO/SUMER in a set of hot coronal loops. The results indicate evidence in
favour of the model with thermal misbalance in the majority of the sample, with
a small population of loops for which thermal conduction alone is more
plausible. The apparent possibility of two different regimes of slow-wave
damping, if due to differences between the loops of host active regions and/or
the photospheric dynamics, may help with revealing the coronal heating
mechanism.
