Prior distributions for objective Bayesian analysis

DOI10.1214/18-BA1103zbMath1407.62073MaRDI QIDQ1631565

Dimitris Fouskakis, Guido Consonni, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Brunero Liseo

Publication date: 6 December 2018

Published in: Bayesian Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba/1523671250

zbMATH Keywords

predictionvariable selectionreference priornoninformative priorobjective Bayesmodel comparisonhigh-dimensional modelcriteria for model choice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02)

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Uses Software

• WinBUGS
• smoothfdr
• EMVS

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