Sensitivity analysis for Bayesian hierarchical models

DOI10.1214/14-BA909zbMath1335.62059arXiv1312.4797OpenAlexW2963171485MaRDI QIDQ273598

Leonhard Held, Thiago G. Martins, Małgorzata Roos, Håvard Rue

Publication date: 22 April 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4797

zbMATH Keywords

Hellinger distancecalibrationBayesian robustnessidentifiabilitybase priorBayesian hierarchical modelsformal local sensitivity measureoverparametrisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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Uses Software

• LISP-STAT
• BayesDA

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