Prior specification in Bayesian statistics: three cautionary tales

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2006.02.002MaRDI QIDQ2201829zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Van Dongen

Publication date 17 September 2020

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.02.002

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesianprior specificationsubjectiveuninformative priorweak prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) General biostatistics (92B15)

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