Reputations changeable, situations tolerable

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-05-15

Summary:

David Kessler, Peter Hoff, and David Dunson write: Marginally specified priors for nonparametric Bayesian estimation Prior specification for nonparametric Bayesian inference involves the difficult task of quantifying prior knowledge about a parameter of high, often infinite, dimension. Realistically, a statistician is unlikely to have informed opinions about all aspects of such a parameter, but may [...]

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Andrew

Date tagged:

05/15/2013, 13:30

Date published:

05/15/2013, 09:48