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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Reference Priors"”.
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On Independent Reference Priors
… of prior has been of great interest. Subjective priors are ideal if sufficient information on priors is available. However, in practice, we cannot collect enough information on priors. Then objective priors are a good substitute for subjective priors. In this dissertation, an independent …
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The formal definition of reference priors under a general class of divergence
… and application of statistics. The choice of priors plays a key role in any Bayesian analysis. There are two types of priors: subjective priors and objective priors. In practice, however, the difficulties of subjective elicitation and time restrictions frequently limit us to use the objective …
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Bayesian Model Selection for Spatial Data and Cost-constrained Applications
… no subjective information is available to inform priors on model parameters a priori, specifically in the case of hierarchical models for spatial data, which can have complex dependence structures. We develop an approach using trained priors via fractional Bayes factors where standard Bayesian …
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Objective Bayesian Analysis of Kullback-Liebler Divergence of two Multivariate Normal Distributions with Common Covariance Matrix and Star-shape Gaussian Graphical Model
… this part is to derive objective/non-informative priors for the parameterizations and use these priors to build up constructive random posteriors of the Kullback-Liebler (KL) divergence of the two multivariate normal populations, which is proportional to the distance between the two means, …